1. Once freed, how do Booker and his family reach their new home to live with his stepfather?
(a) Walk several hundred miles.
(b) Ride mules several hundred miles.
(c) Hitching rides in wagons.
(d) Catch a train.

2. Teachers at Tuskegee are largely recruited from where?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Hampton.
(d) Howard.

3. In the chapter "Raising Money," what is the outcome of the meeting Booker has with a man he had been told might be interested in donating to his school?
(a) The man cuts the meeting short and asks Booker to leave.
(b) The man does not make a donation.
(c) The man explains he is no longer wealthy.
(d) The man donates a large sum.

4. Among the unnecessary excesses that he describes for the families of Tuskegee living in poverty, what does Booker include?
(a) Owning books when they can be borrowed from the library instead.
(b) Serving guests an elaborate meal when a simple one will do.
(c) Owning an expensive organ that is rarely played.
(d) Buying expensive silk ties and dresses that are rarely worn.

5. Booker feels that the people of Tuskegee should be using part of their land for what?
(a) Growing vegetables.
(b) Planting trees.
(c) Raising dairy cows.
(d) Raising chickens and geese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Booker explains that some girls who had worked as laundresses went to school for six to eight years and came out not wanting to do laundry but wanting:

2. Who is Booker's second wife?

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

4. What does the author say that all of the newly freed, former slaves want?

5. Although he is uncertain of the exact location of his birth, Booker T. Washington believes he was born near a:

(see the answer key)

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