Finding Langston

This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. Where did Langston live before moving to Chicago? (short answer)

2. How does Langston feel about Miss Fulton?

A) He is scared of her.

B) He thinks she is uppity.

C) She makes him laugh.

D) He thinks she talks too much.

3. What makes Langston think other kids in his class didn’t grow up in Chicago?

A) because of the food in their lunches

B) because he’s seen their families and heard them talking

C) because of the music they like

D) because they don’t have jackets for the cold weather

4. Just as the school bullies begin pestering Langston in Chapter Two, what does he remember?

A) his father telling him to stand up for himself

B) his long car ride to Chicago

C) his grandmother’s illness