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Multiple Choice Questions

1. Booker visits Washington, D.C. to ask the U.S. President to do what?
(a) Create a government post to oversee education.
(b) Visit Tuskegee Institute.
(c) Provide Tuskegee Institute with a grant for expansion.
(d) Ease racial tensions.

2. To help Booker while he's studying at Hampton, who sends him small amounts of money whenever possible?
(a) His previous teachers.
(b) His previous employer, Mrs. Ruffner.
(c) His mother and stepfather.
(d) His brother John.

3. Booker comments that his students at Tuskegee are anxious to learn:
(a) Only the subjects that they find interesting.
(b) Only practical subjects.
(c) Whatever he hands them.
(d) Math, especially calculus.

4. Booker explains that many Tuskegee families offered gifts to help out his school. Which gift touched him the most?
(a) Two pennies offered by a child.
(b) An accordion offered by a blind man.
(c) A chicken offered by an older man.
(d) Six eggs offered by an older woman.

5. Washington travels two thousand miles to give a five-minute speech to whom?
(a) A group of influential people.
(b) The President of the U.S.
(c) A women's group.
(d) A retired general.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Washington's third wife?

2. During his speech at the Atlanta Exposition, Washington says people need to work together to pull the South up, or else:

3. Booker feels that the people of Tuskegee should be using part of their land for what?

4. What does Booker say about his job working in coalmines?

5. What is a typical week for farming families in Tuskegee?

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