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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. By whom is Langston greatly influenced?
(a) Carrie Walnutt.
(b) Sally Pecan.
(c) Helen Chestnutt.
(d) Mary Hazelnutt.

2. One day when Langston and a white friend go to a cafeteria for lunch, how much does his friend's meal cost?
(a) Eight dollars and sixty-five cents.
(b) Five dollars.
(c) Forty-five cents.
(d) Two dollars.

3. Where does Langston's father offer to take Langston?
(a) To Memphis for blues music.
(b) To Mexico City for the bullfights.
(c) To Cleveland to visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
(d) To Chicago for musical performances.

4. What does Langston think about his job as a doorman at a nightclub?
(a) It is unsatisfying.
(b) It is satisfying.
(c) It is exciting.
(d) It is fine.

5. What happens when Langston is a junior in high school?
(a) Langston's mother and stepfather have another child.
(b) Langston's mother and his stepfather reunite in Cleveland.
(c) Langston's mother and father reunite in Mexico.
(d) Langston's mother and father get remarried.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Mary Langston a proud woman?

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

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

4. What does Langston's mother write?

5. When Langston returns to New York, he is introduced to whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Langston act on stage at church? What are the reactions of the congregation and his mother?

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

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

4. Describe Lincoln.

5. What does Langston do while at Lincoln?

6. Why does Langston move to Cleveland?

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

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

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

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

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