Langston Hughes: Poet of the People

Why is this selection called "Langston Huges: Poet of the People?

• It tells how Langston grew up with a lot of people.

• It tells how Langston was a loner who wanted to be accepted.

• It tells how Langston wanted to write about African American Life.

• It tells how Langston and his father were a family.

What happens right after Mr. Hughes sees one of Langston's poems on the floor?

• He crumples up the paper.

• He reads the poem.

• He puts the paper in a drawer.

• He decides that Langston will go to school to be an engineer.

What is Langston going to do at the end of the selection?

• He is going back to Mexico with his father.

• He is going to finish his engineering degree.

• He is going to move to Harlem to write.

• He is going to study medicine instead of engineering.

The poet's name is ___________

• Langston Hughes

• Hugh Langston

• Langston Huge

• Huge Longston

What type of things did Langston Hughes write?

• commercial and other advertisements

• rap songs

• poems and short stories

• scripts for movies

In “I, Too” the speaker does all of the following when company comes except...

• Eat Well

• Laugh

• Cry

• Grow Strong

In the poem, “Refugee in America”, Langston writes about the difference between what two things?

• Freedom and Democracy

• Democracy

  and Liberty

• Liberty and Freedom

• Independence and Liberty

Where was Langston Hughes born?

• Topeka, Kansas

• Joplin, Missouri

• Bronx, New York

• Tulsa, Oklahoma

What does the phrase "hold fast" mean in the poem, "Dreams"?

• run from

• try to

• hang on to

• forget

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Where was Langston Hughes born?