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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 does Langston observe while working at a soda fountain?
(a) The many people who support the war.
(b) Social interaction.
(c) Many different views on the war.
(d) Many different views on racial issues.

2. At what age does Langston Hughes begin to consider himself a poet?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Fourteen.

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

4. How old is Langston Hughes when his grandmother dies?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Ten.

5. When does Langston's mother send for him?
(a) When he is ten.
(b) When he is twelve.
(c) When he is eight.
(d) When he is fourteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Langston have any interest in poetry?

2. How does Langston know this influential woman?

3. How is Mary Langston a proud woman?

4. Why do the children do this?

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

(see the answer key)

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