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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Not Without Laughter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. High school has readied him for college. Does Langston have a chance of going on with his education?
(a) No, because he does not want to go to college.
(b) A great chance.
(c) Little chance.
(d) No chance.

2. What does Langston's mother make him do at church?
(a) Be in the choir.
(b) Read the Gospel.
(c) Be an acolyte.
(d) Act out a role.

3. What does Langston's mother write?
(a) Sermons for church.
(b) Musicals.
(c) Verse for church programs.
(d) Plays.

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

5. What happens when, in January, 1921, "A Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in The Crisis?
(a) He is asked to come to Lincoln on a partial scholarship.
(b) He is accepted into Columbia University with a full-ride.
(c) After seeing his son's publishing success, Mr. Hughes agreed to send his son to Columbia University in New York.
(d) After seeing her son's publishing success, Langston's mother sends him to Lincoln for college.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Langston accept a job teaching English?

3. In New Orleans, what job does Hughes take?

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

5. How does Langston's father try to convince Langston to come to Mexico for the summer?

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