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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Busboy Poet.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Langston attend high school?
(a) Central Catholic High School.
(b) Lawrence Central High School
(c) Central High School.
(d) North Central High School.

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

4. How does Langston help this family?
(a) By tutoring their children.
(b) With the housework, which included setting hens and driving cows to pasture.
(c) By branding the cattle.
(d) By cooking and cleaning.

5. How does Langston pass the time in Mexico?
(a) By working on his autobiography.
(b) By reading and writing.
(c) By playing soccer with other boys in town.
(d) By reading, improving his Spanish, and riding horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose poems does Langston like?

2. Does Langston finish college at Columbia?

3. Where does Langston's father offer to take Langston?

4. One day when Langston and a white friend go to a cafeteria for lunch, how much does his friend's meal cost?

5. How are his first few months in this city?

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