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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Booker feels that some individuals were not served well enough by their education and that, in the end, their desires increased but:
(a) Their living conditions deteriorated.
(b) Their ability to meet these desires did not increase.
(c) Their dreams were shattered.
(d) Their willingness to work for what they desired was lacking.

3. How long does it take Booker's school to raise enough money to pay off debt?
(a) Ten months.
(b) Two years.
(c) A few months.
(d) Fifteen months.

4. Who is Booker's second wife?
(a) Miss Mackie.
(b) Miss Jefferson.
(c) Miss Davidson.
(d) Miss Ruthie.

5. At his speaking engagement at the expo in 1895, Booker is:
(a) The only southerner invited to speak at the event.
(b) Hailed as a hero.
(c) The only black man invited to speak at the event.
(d) Booed loudly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a mill owner help the Tuskegee Institute?

2. Why does Booker say it was worth the effort to travel two thousand miles to give a five-minute speech?

3. Because he's disappointed by how the people of Tuskegee regard Christmas, what does Booker introduce at his school?

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

5. Washington travels two thousand miles to give a five-minute speech to whom?

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