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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. Why does Langston move to Cleveland?
(a) Langston's stepfather finds work at a steel mill.
(b) Langston's father finds work at a steel mill.
(c) Langston's mother has found work as a maid.
(d) Langston wants to attend Central High School.

2. Who is Langston's only friend at Columbia?
(a) Chun.
(b) Juan.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Marcos.

3. What does Langston do when he hears how much his food will cost?
(a) He eats it anyway and does not pay.
(b) He leaves his food at the counter and sits down to watch his friend eat.
(c) He storms out of the cafeteria.
(d) He throws his food at the server.

4. What is Hughes' job aboard the S.S. West Hesseltine?
(a) To watch over the petty officers' mess and make up their staterooms.
(b) To swab the deck.
(c) To steer the ship.
(d) To cook for the officers.

5. What has Langston's mother just done?
(a) Divorced his father.
(b) Had another child.
(c) Moved in with her sister.
(d) Remarried.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose poems does Langston like?

2. How much money does Langston earn from The Crisis?

3. By whom is Langston greatly influenced?

4. What does Hughes do with the books?

5. What does Langston's father approach him one day and say?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Langston, again, affected by racism, on his train ride home from Mexico?

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

3. Describe Hughes' family history.

4. In what literature is Langston interested at this time?

5. What does Langston realize about his father, when he visits him for a summer?

6. What happens to Langston when he goes to a cafeteria with a white friend?

7. What takes place during Langston's senior year?

8. Why does Langston move to Cleveland?

9. What does Langston do while at Lincoln?

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

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