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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Hampton night school students earn money for?
(a) To buy their school meals and pay for their rooms.
(b) To support their families.
(c) To put in the bank for when they're out of school.
(d) To help pay for tuition to Hampton's regular school.

2. Who becomes Tuskegee Institute's treasurer and substitute principal?
(a) Jonathan Armstrong.
(b) Warren Logan.
(c) George Campbell.
(d) Lewis Adams.

3. 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.

4. Booker's night school at Hampton expands from twelve students to:
(a) Close to fifty.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) More than twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

5. After Booker and his family move into a small cabin with his stepfather in a salt-mining community, what do they discover about their new home?
(a) The cabin sits alone in a secluded, wooded area.
(b) It's much nicer than what they left behind.
(c) The roof has holes and there is no stove.
(d) It's as shabby as the one they lived in before.

Short Answer Questions

1. By saving enough money, who does Booker help send to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute?

2. Why does Booker sell his own watch to raise fifteen dollars?

3. Once freed, how do Booker and his family reach their new home to live with his stepfather?

4. What is the first number that Booker says he learns?

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

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