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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Booker notes that even though the slaves are well informed, the biggest downfall is what?
(a) Lack of free time.
(b) No writing supplies.
(c) Lack of book learning.
(d) No hope for advancement.

2. How do the people of Tuskegee find Booker to oversee their school?
(a) They advertise in several newspapers in the region.
(b) They write to General Armstrong at Hampton.
(c) They send a representative to contact him personally after hearing of his accomplishments.
(d) They ask Miss Mackie for a recommendation.

3. 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.

4. When Booker is hired as a waiter at a classy restaurant, who chastises him, and why?
(a) The host, for getting in the way of other waiters.
(b) The proprietor, for dropping a tray.
(c) The men he's waiting on, for doing a poor job.
(d) The cook, for getting the order wrong.

5. What does Booker purchase to help his students learn more about working with their hands?
(a) A defunct restaurant.
(b) A dilapidated barn.
(c) The remains of a plantation.
(d) An acre of forest land.

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

7. When Booker finally arrives at Hampton and meets the head teacher, what does he tell her?
(a) He promises to be her best student ever.
(b) He's tired, dirty, and ragged from his long journey.
(c) He hasn't had a drink of water or any food for a day and a half.
(d) He's thrilled to be there and ready to learn.

8. In June of 1881, Booker is hired to oversee what kind of school in Tuskegee?
(a) A "normal school," which is a school that trains teachers.
(b) A religious school for seminary students.
(c) A boarding school for pre-med students.
(d) A "one-room school," where different grade levels are taught in one class.

9. 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 keeps it.
(b) Two customers come forward to claim the money.
(c) The proprietor asks his customers who is missing ten dollars.
(d) A customer tells them it was left as a tip.

10. Who joins Booker as co-teacher at his school in Tuskegee?
(a) Ruthie Smith.
(b) Lewis Adams.
(c) Olivia A. Davidson.
(d) George W. Campbell.

11. What does Booker note that the people of Tuskegee want from him?
(a) To have him involved in their local politics.
(b) That he teach their children well so they can get out of poverty.
(c) To be a voice for them as he travels from one community to the next.
(d) That he create flexible schedules so the students can work and study.

12. As a child, Booker lives in a cabin that also serves as:
(a) A garden tool storage shed.
(b) A chicken coop.
(c) The community's meeting hall.
(d) The plantation's kitchen.

13. All of Booker's students at Tuskegee are at least:
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eighteen.

14. What does the author say that all of the newly freed, former slaves want?
(a) To own land.
(b) To change their names.
(c) Monetary compensation from former masters.
(d) Assistance with adjusting to their new lives.

15. Booker T. Washington spends his early years, from his birth until the end of the Civil War, as:
(a) A slave.
(b) An orphan.
(c) A homeless child.
(d) A refugee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who mentors Booker as he tries to establish a school in Tuskegee?

2. How does Booker T. Washington get his last name?

3. Due to overcrowding at Hampton, there isn't enough room in the dormitories and some students have to spend the winter in:

4. When he arrives at the school he's overseeing in Tuskegee, what does Booker find?

5. 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:

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