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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Central High.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Langston's mother just done?
(a) Moved in with her sister.
(b) Divorced his father.
(c) Remarried.
(d) Had another child.

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

3. Who will Langston be joining?
(a) His mother, stepfather, and half-brother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His mother, stepfather, and stepbrother.
(d) His mother and aunt.

4. What does Langston learn at this community center?
(a) Drawing and painting.
(b) Singing and dancing.
(c) Acting.
(d) Painting and ceramics.

5. How does Mary make her living?
(a) By cooking, cleaning, and washing for rich white families.
(b) By renting rooms to college students who went to the University of Kansas.
(c) By working as a professor at the University of Kansas.
(d) By waitressing in a small diner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose poems does Langston like?

2. As what is Langston's mother employed?

3. In what does Hughes become interested?

4. When is Langston reunited with his father for a short while?

5. By whom is Langston greatly influenced?

(see the answer key)

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