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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What project does Booker take over at Hampton?
(a) Building shelters for seventy-five Indians.
(b) Overseeing the education of seventy-five Indians.
(c) Hiring Indians to teach at the school.
(d) Hiring Indians to rebuild the school.

2. In addition to teaching day and night classes and doing tutoring, Booker teaches:
(a) Athletics.
(b) Theater.
(c) Piano.
(d) Sunday school.

3. What is a typical week for farming families in Tuskegee?
(a) Working five days a week, going to town Saturdays, attending meetings Sundays.
(b) Working five days a week, attending meetings Saturdays, going to church and resting Sundays.
(c) Working six days a week, going to town and meetings Sundays.
(d) Working six days a week, going to church and picnics Sundays.

4. 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:
(a) Better clothes and other possessions.
(b) To make a difference in the world.
(c) To marry educated men.
(d) Their own servants, cooks, and laundresses.

5. Booker states that in addition to receiving book knowledge in school, former slaves should be taught:
(a) That they can succeed in their new circumstances.
(b) That doing manual labor is not shameful.
(c) Practical skills, like cooking.
(d) How to look for and interview for a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Booker notes that even though the slaves are well informed, the biggest downfall is what?

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

3. The "T" in Booker T. Washington stands for:

4. What does Booker quickly discover about the Indians at Hampton?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Booker's early childhood family and home.

2. Booker decides it's time for him to go to Hampton. What is Hampton?

3. Describe Booker's experiences as a young man working at restaurants.

4. How do the blacks and the Indians get along at Hampton?

5. How do blacks react upon being read the Emancipation Proclamation?

6. Upon obtaining their freedom, where do Booker and his family go?

7. Explain why Booker feels that many students come out of school with an education but without the ability to make a living.

8. What does Booker mean when he says that the people of Tuskegee are prone to some excess?

9. How do Booker and his family reach their new home after they are freed?

10. What is the Tuskegee Institute like in its earliest days?

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