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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. How does Booker handle complaints by parents who don't want their students to do manual labor at his school?
(a) He ignores them.
(b) He excuses their children from doing manual labor.
(c) He gives the parents a lecture about the benefits of hard work.
(d) He recruits these parents to help with construction projects.

2. Once freed, how do Booker and his family reach their new home to live with his stepfather?
(a) Catch a train.
(b) Ride mules several hundred miles.
(c) Walk several hundred miles.
(d) Hitching rides in wagons.

3. While living with his stepfather, young Booker works:
(a) Driving salt trucks.
(b) Delivering salt to merchants.
(c) At salt furnaces.
(d) Selling salt door to door.

4. What do Booker and his co-teacher at Tuskegee agree they need to add to their curriculum?
(a) Latin.
(b) Music.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Hygiene.

5. Who dies at the end of Booker's second year at Hampton?
(a) A favorite teacher.
(b) His mother.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His stepfather.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To start with, how many students does Booker have at his school in Tuskegee?

4. Booker comments that his students at Tuskegee are anxious to learn:

5. At Hampton, the blacks and the Indians:

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