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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. Whose poems does Langston like?
(a) Only Richard Aldington and James Alexander Allan.
(b) Only Alan Davies and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Only Longellow and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(d) Only George Barker and Thomas Campbell.

2. What does his mother do afterward?
(a) She begins to cry hysterically.
(b) She whips him and teaches him a lesson about respecting other people's art.
(c) She sends him to live with his father.
(d) She has him meet with the pastor.

3. What leads Langston and his father to get into an argument concerning Langston's future?
(a) Langston wants to be a painter.
(b) Langston does not want to go to college.
(c) Langston wants to be a writer.
(d) Langston wants to be a mining engineer.

4. Why is Hughes severely hazed when he first attends Lincoln?
(a) Because of his mild celebrity attributed to "The Weary Blues."
(b) He is very intelligent.
(c) He does not appear as "black" as other students.
(d) He is one of the few black students.

5. How does Langston's father try to convince Langston to come to Mexico for the summer?
(a) He will buy him a new car.
(b) He offers to pay his way.
(c) He hints at getting full custody.
(d) He hints at an opportunity to pursue a college education.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what activity is Hughes involved?

2. Why does Langston become depressed?

3. High school has readied him for college. Does Langston have a chance of going on with his education?

4. Who are among Langston's classmates?

5. What happens when, in January, 1921, "A Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in The Crisis?

(see the answer key)

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