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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Teaching School in a Stable and a Hen House.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the country families of Tuskegee go to town on Saturdays, what do they do there?
(a) Attend meetings.
(b) Shop for supplies.
(c) Attend plays.
(d) Sell vegetables.

2. The author tells the story of finding a ten-dollar bill while working at a restaurant. What happens when he shows the money to the proprietor?
(a) The proprietor asks his customers who is missing ten dollars.
(b) The proprietor keeps it.
(c) A customer tells them it was left as a tip.
(d) Two customers come forward to claim the money.

3. Why do young Booker and his family live in the plantation's kitchen?
(a) It's warmer than the cabins on the property.
(b) There's probably no room elsewhere on the plantation.
(c) The family most likely is asked to live there.
(d) It was a guest house before being converted into a kitchen.

4. When Booker decides to go to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, how does his community help him?
(a) Writing letters of recommendation.
(b) Buying him a few school supplies.
(c) Giving him small donations.
(d) Offering transportation.

5. When he arrives at the school he's overseeing in Tuskegee, what does Booker find?
(a) There is a severe shortage of teachers.
(b) The wrong textbooks have been ordered.
(c) A large facility with very few students.
(d) No accommodations and plenty of anxious students.

Short Answer Questions

1. To start with, how many students does Booker have at his school in Tuskegee?

2. Why is the plantation kitchen usually removed from the rest of the house?

3. As a young boy, one of Booker's jobs is what?

4. Booker notes that many blacks of his era wanted to learn what two languages?

5. When Booker finally arrives at Hampton and meets the head teacher, what does he tell her?

(see the answer key)

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