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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Langston do at the end of the summer?
(a) He attends Columbia University.
(b) He visits friends in Paris.
(c) He stays in Mexico.
(d) He returns to the United States.

2. When Langston has had enough of the ocean and asked for his pay, where does he travel?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Berlin.

3. Why does Langston soon come down with the 'blues?'
(a) He misses his mother.
(b) He does not have friends in Mexico.
(c) His father is gone most of the time.
(d) He is disgusted by his father's attitude.

4. At what age does Langston Hughes begin to consider himself a poet?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Five.

5. Who introduces Langston to the poetry of Carl Sandburg?
(a) Miss Ellen Conn.
(b) Miss Ethel Weimer.
(c) Miss Emilia Hartkopf.
(d) Miss Emily Mills.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during a revival?

2. What does Langston do on the train ride to Mexico?

3. Of what is Langston in search when he returns to New York?

4. Why is this summer called the 'Red Summer?'

5. What does Langston's father say about American blacks and Mexicans?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Langston feel about attending church with the Reeds?

2. How is Langston's father's mind changed, regarding his collegiate studies?

3. How does Langston end up meeting the editors of The Crisis?

4. What does Langston do while at Lincoln?

5. What does Langston do after dropping out of Columbia?

6. Describe Hughes' family history.

7. What is Langston's job on the S.S. West Hesseltine?

8. How is Langston, yet again, faced with prejudice?

9. What happened to Langston, one day during a revival at the church?

10. What happens when Langston becomes a busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel?

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