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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. What courses does Hughes take?
(a) Literature and theater.
(b) Theater and music.
(c) Education and literature.
(d) Music and literature.

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

3. Why does Langston become depressed?
(a) Racism is stronger now than a few years ago.
(b) He is treated worse in the south than in the north.
(c) Racism he witnesses even in the midst of disaster.
(d) He is still treated unequally.

4. What is Lincoln?
(a) A college that accepts many black students.
(b) A public university for black students.
(c) A liberal arts college.
(d) A prestigious school for blacks.

5. What does Langston's father approach him one day and say?
(a) He wants him to go to college and become a painter.
(b) He wants him to go to college and become a doctor.
(c) He wants him to go to college and become a writer.
(d) He wants him to go to college and become a mining engineer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Langston have any interest in poetry?

2. Who are among Langston's classmates?

3. What is Hughes pleased to find about Africa?

4. What does Langston's mother make him do at church?

5. Who is Hughes' only friend in Africa?

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