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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Langston's father say about American blacks and Mexicans?
(a) They are lazy and foolish.
(b) They should all move to Mexico.
(c) They should be given equality.
(d) He can relate to them.

2. High school has readied him for college. Does Langston have a chance of going on with his education?
(a) A great chance.
(b) No chance.
(c) No, because he does not want to go to college.
(d) Little chance.

3. How many parts of the African coast does Hughes see?
(a) Only a few.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Many.

4. What does Langston think about his job as a doorman at a nightclub?
(a) It is fine.
(b) It is exciting.
(c) It is satisfying.
(d) It is unsatisfying.

5. Why is this summer called the 'Red Summer?'
(a) Because the summer has record high temperatures.
(b) Because many Chinese are moving to the country.
(c) Because the fear of Communism has spread like wildfire.
(d) Because of the violence against blacks that ensues in the post war environment.

6. What does Langston think about the box of books he has brought for this journey?
(a) They will be a part of his new life.
(b) He is glad he brought them.
(c) They will help him in his journey in Africa.
(d) He decides they are a part of his past.

7. What does Langston do that evening?
(a) He prays.
(b) He cries himself to sleep.
(c) He calls his mother.
(d) He writes a letter to his mother.

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

9. When is Langston reunited with his father for a short while?
(a) He visits his father in Mexico for a summer.
(b) His mother and he move to Mexico City.
(c) His father joins them in Chicago.
(d) His family moves to New York.

10. How does Langston's father try to convince Langston to come to Mexico for the summer?
(a) He hints at getting full custody.
(b) He hints at an opportunity to pursue a college education.
(c) He will buy him a new car.
(d) He offers to pay his way.

11. That spring, where is Langston invited to spend the summer?
(a) With his father in Toluca, Mexico.
(b) With his father in Memphis, Tennessee.
(c) With his stepfather in Chicago, Illinois.
(d) With his father in Cleveland, Ohio.

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

13. What happens when Langston shows up to claim his room key at Columbia?
(a) He is given a key to a small, closet-sized room.
(b) He is told that he will be staying off campus.
(c) He is given a key and a roommate.
(d) He is told that blacks are not allowed in the dormitories.

14. Of what is Langston an active member?
(a) Several teams and clubs.
(b) The debate team.
(c) The Spanish Club.
(d) The basketball team.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Langston do at the end of the summer?

2. Why is Langston's summer in Toluca not a bad one?

3. Why is Hughes severely hazed when he first attends Lincoln?

4. After a while, when Langston stops going to classes, in what does he become more interested?

5. What job does Langston have on his first ship?

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