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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Africa.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hughes pleased to find about Africa?
(a) The people are kind.
(b) He feels welcome.
(c) It is as primitive as he expected.
(d) It is not as primitive as the movies had portrayed.

2. After a while, when Langston stops going to classes, in what does he become more interested?
(a) Music.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Singing.

3. What is the S.S. West Hesseltine?
(a) A freighter headed to Africa.
(b) A cruise ship headed to Africa.
(c) A private yacht headed to Africa.
(d) A sailboat headed to Africa.

4. What does Langston do when he hears how much his food will cost?
(a) He eats it anyway and does not pay.
(b) He throws his food at the server.
(c) He leaves his food at the counter and sits down to watch his friend eat.
(d) He storms out of the cafeteria.

5. In what school does Langston's mother enroll him?
(a) Indian Creek School.
(b) The Harrison Street School.
(c) Berkeley-Carroll School.
(d) Poly Preparatory School.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Langston learn at this community center?

2. How is Mary Langston a proud woman?

3. What does Langston's mother write?

4. What does Auntie Reed insist that Langston do?

5. Where does Langston accept a job teaching English?

(see the answer key)

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