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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Langston not like his middle-class relatives?
(a) They are rude and disrespectful.
(b) They do not want him to visit.
(c) They are snobby and indifferent to black suffering.
(d) They do not care for his mother.

2. What does Langston do at the end of the summer?
(a) He stays in Mexico.
(b) He attends Columbia University.
(c) He returns to the United States.
(d) He visits friends in Paris.

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

4. Who is Dr. Woodson?
(a) A professor at Lincoln.
(b) Founder of the association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
(c) His mother's physician.
(d) A famous author of sociology.

5. Why is Langston's summer in Toluca not a bad one?
(a) His father is rarely around.
(b) His father encourages him to write.
(c) He makes many friends.
(d) His father is around most of the time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when, in January, 1921, "A Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in The Crisis?

2. Does Langston finish college at Columbia?

3. How does Langston pass the time in Mexico?

4. What does Langston do at this revival?

5. Why is Lincoln known as the "black Princeton?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Langston's experience in Paris.

2. How is Langston, again, affected by racism, on his train ride home from Mexico?

3. How does Langston become involved in school activities at Central High School?

4. What happens to Langston when he goes to a cafeteria with a white friend?

5. Why do Langston's classmates believe he would be a good poet?

6. How is Langston affected by his father's attitude?

7. How is Langston's father's mind changed, regarding his collegiate studies?

8. What does Langston do after dropping out of Columbia?

9. What happens when Langston returns to New York?

10. What takes place during Langston's senior year?

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