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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Columbia vs. Harlem.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Langston have on his first ship?
(a) He works in the engine room.
(b) He is a mess boy.
(c) He is a cook.
(d) He serves the captain.

2. Does Langston finish college at Columbia?
(a) No, because he transfers to NYU.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) No, but he attends graduate school there.

3. What does Hughes do with the books?
(a) He throws them into the sea.
(b) He rereads them.
(c) He gives them away.
(d) He puts them in a crate.

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

5. What does Langston do at this revival?
(a) He refuses to join the children by the altar.
(b) He is saved.
(c) He hides in a back pew.
(d) He pretends to be saved.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Langston know this influential woman?

2. What is the S.S. West Hesseltine?

3. Where do Langston's poems continue to appear?

4. What do the children do one by one?

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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