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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20, Theater in a Suitcase.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 mining engineer.
(c) He wants him to go to college and become a writer.
(d) He wants him to go to college and become a doctor.

4. Where does this trip south take Langston?
(a) To community centers and high schools.
(b) To unversities and concert halls.
(c) To colleges, high schools, and local meeting places.
(d) To famous theaters.

5. During his senior year of high school, what happens to Langston?
(a) He is prom king.
(b) He joins the track team.
(c) He is elected editor of the yearbook and class poet.
(d) He becomes class president.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Langston have any interest in poetry?

2. What does his mother receive while they are there?

3. When does Langston's mother send for him?

4. Who introduces Langston to the poetry of Carl Sandburg?

5. What would Langston rather read?

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