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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. The husband and wife learned to grow which crop?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Corn.
(d) Soybeans.

2. How old was Banneker when he was introduced to a new religion?
(a) 11.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 14.

3. Which activity began to take up Banneker's free time?
(a) Learning to speak French.
(b) Analyzing time pieces.
(c) Tooling leather.
(d) Breaking horses.

4. In what year was Benjamin Banneker born?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1717.
(c) 1731.
(d) 1742.

5. Matzeliger was born in 1852 in which country?
(a) Kenya.
(b) Croatia.
(c) Zimbabwe.
(d) Surinam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the former residence of the grandmother?

2. Where was Elijah McCoy born?

3. What revolutionary invention was used to make the crops grow?

4. The company specialized in which area?

5. To which religion was Banneker introduced?

Short Essay Questions

1. Before the invention of the Safety Hood, Garrett Morgan was involved in another field. What was the field? What invention came out of Morgan's work in that area?

2. List at least five of Woods' inventions.

3. When and where was Elijah McCoy born? What actions taken by McCoy's parents may have ensured McCoy's success?

4. Norbert Rillieux was born to a wealthy French inventor. What invention did the father create? How did the father's education affect Norbert? Why was the decision made?

5. What was the purpose of the telephone patents? Why were the inventions important? What industry eventually adopted the system?

6. What was the reason Rillieux decided to leave New Orleans? Where did Rillieux go?

7. What were McCoy's natural gifts? What prevented McCoy from working in his chosen field when he returned to the US?

8. Banneker became interested in politics. Which event did Banneker attend? Which speech moved Banneker the most in regards to the new government?

9. What was revolutionary about Matzeliger's invention? What had stopped previous inventors from creating the same machine?

10. Who is Granville T. Woods? To who is he often compared? What was Woods' field of study?

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