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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. What does General Armstrong loan to the Tuskegee Institute?
(a) His guesthouse.
(b) His maps and globes.
(c) His book collection.
(d) His personal savings.

2. The author notes that many people who got an inkling of education became:
(a) Doctors or attorneys.
(b) Entrepreneurs or salesmen.
(c) Teachers or preachers.
(d) Public speakers or politicians.

3. The Reconstruction Period refers to the:
(a) Pre-Civil War era.
(b) Railroad building era.
(c) Post-Civil War era.
(d) Era of migration from farms to factories.

4. After traveling two thousand miles to give his five-minute speech, what does Booker do?
(a) Spends time sightseeing.
(b) Attends a dinner event.
(c) Takes a train back to Boston.
(d) Returns home.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Booker observes that during the Reconstruction Period, many who held public office were unable to do what after leaving office?

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

4. What does Booker state about the attitude of his Tuskegee students against manual labor?

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

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