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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 when he is denied admittance because of his color?
(a) He complains to the management.
(b) He begins watching movies at the opera house.
(c) He stays at home.
(d) He runs away.

2. Who will Langston be joining?
(a) His mother and aunt.
(b) His mother, stepfather, and half-brother.
(c) His mother, stepfather, and stepbrother.
(d) His mother.

3. How old is Langston Hughes when his grandmother dies?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Twelve.

4. How does Langston help this family?
(a) With the housework, which included setting hens and driving cows to pasture.
(b) By branding the cattle.
(c) By cooking and cleaning.
(d) By tutoring their children.

5. What does he do during this activity?
(a) He becomes bored and starts rolling his eyes and giggling.
(b) He refuses to sing.
(c) He trips and drops the candle.
(d) He laughs and makes fun of the reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what community center does Langston become involved?

2. Why is Langston's summer in Toluca not a bad one?

3. In what activity is Hughes involved?

4. Who is Langston's only friend at Columbia?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Langston reunited with his father?

2. How does Langston get the opportunity to travel to Africa? What does he do, as he travels across the ocean?

3. Describe Langston's father.

4. How do Langston and his father get into an argument?

5. Why do Langston's classmates believe he would be a good poet?

6. Why does Langston travel to McKeesport, Pennsylvania?

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

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

9. What happens when Langston is fourteen?

10. Describe Lincoln.

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