LANGUAGE I MID TERM EXAM STUDENT´S NAME:

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PART 1: READING COMPREHENSION

A. Read the story once to answer the following questions:

1. Set the story in time and place.

2. Who are the characters? Briefly describe them physically or through their actions.
3. Summarize the plot in a well written paragraph. Start like this:

Two former lovers ______________________________________________________________

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B. Go over the story again and do the activity below.

4. Why do you think the story is called “Early Autumn”? Account for your answer with
textual evidence.
5. “Something not very important had come between them” refers to ………………………….
PART 2: ENGLISH IN USE

Activity 1: Cloze. Read about Langston Hughes. Circle the word that best fits each
space.

Hughes’ first 1. …………………….. work, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” appeared in the
NAACP magazine, The Crisis, 2. …………………..1921. It became his signature poem.
Hughes 3. ………………………….. Columbia University until he left in 1922 4. …………... racial
prejudice within the institution.
Hughes wrote poetry that reflected the Harlem neighborhood that 5. …………………….
him. 6. …………………… he was considered part of the Harlem Renaissance, he found
himself at odds with those 7. ……………………. gave birth to it. Hughes believed they
sometimes compromised the cultural identity of African Americans 8. ……………………
achieve social equality.

1. publish published publishes

2. on in at
3. attended was attended had attended
4. as because due to
5. surrounded fenced Bounded
6. However But Although
7. which who whose

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8. in order for in order to

Activity 2: Vocabulary in context. Find the words in the paragraph below that match
the following synonyms.

Raising level devoted fights to speak or write in favour of delicate

impregnate not falling short of expectation

Perhaps because of his own upbringing, Hughes had a strong connection to those in
the lower social-economic strata and he dedicated his life to not only writing about
their struggles, but to advocating for equality and justice.
He was called the “O. Henry of Harlem,” and the “Negro Poet Laureate.”
Hughes’ works – poetry, plays, short stories, novels, autobiographies, children’s books,
and newspaper columns – enjoyed worldwide popularity and were translated into 12
languages. M. Bekker wrote in the introduction to a Russian edition of Hughes’s work:
“The poetry of Langston Hughes is simple and beautiful, like life itself. On whatever
subject the poet writes – love and tenderness, degradation and violence, joblessness
and the Lynch law, anger and the struggle for freedom – his poems are always imbued
with the people’s sorrows and joys. For this reason his poems go unfailingly to the
heart of the common man, be he black or white, American or Russian.”

Langston Hughes died in New York in 1967.

PART 3: WRITTEN PRODUCTION

When Mary returns home, she decides to write an email to Bill to let him know
everything she has “ forgotten” to tell him in the last 20 years.
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