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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the author's view, how would the freed slaves have been better served?
(a) If the federal government had made plans to teach them.
(b) If the state government had created a job-finding service for them.
(c) Through the availability of work-study programs.
(d) Through trained advisors who could help with the transition.

2. What are the names of Booker's two sons?
(a) Booker and Ernest.
(b) Lewis and Edison.
(c) Jonathan and Edward.
(d) Elias and Jacob.

3. Booker feels that some individuals were not served well enough by their education and that, in the end, their desires increased but:
(a) Their dreams were shattered.
(b) Their living conditions deteriorated.
(c) Their willingness to work for what they desired was lacking.
(d) Their ability to meet these desires did not increase.

4. The author states that those earning seventy-five or a hundred dollars a month were:
(a) Often in debt by the end of the month.
(b) Expected to pay higher taxes.
(c) Considered wealthy.
(d) Regularly asked for monetary help by those earning less.

5. When Booker speaks of the Christmas season, what is his complaint?
(a) People give each other useless trinkets.
(b) Churches must shorten their Christmas services.
(c) Stores sell too many unnecessary items.
(d) People have forgotten the true meaning of Christmas.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a mill owner help the Tuskegee Institute?

2. Who is Booker's second wife?

3. When Miss Davidson travels to ask for financial support for the Tuskegee Institute, she meets two Northern ladies who agree to donate:

4. Washington travels two thousand miles to give a five-minute speech to whom?

5. As Booker prepares to speak at the expo in 1895, he feels the weight of responsibility because his audience consists of:

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