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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 do during the day?
(a) Learn how to cook.
(b) Tutor other students.
(c) Work.
(d) Take care of their families.

2. Booker comments that his students at Tuskegee are anxious to learn:
(a) Only practical subjects.
(b) Math, especially calculus.
(c) Whatever he hands them.
(d) Only the subjects that they find interesting.

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

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

5. 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) A customer tells them it was left as a tip.
(b) The proprietor keeps it.
(c) Two customers come forward to claim the money.
(d) The proprietor asks his customers who is missing ten dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Shortly after acquiring their freedom, where does the author's family move to?

3. When Booker is hired as a waiter at a classy restaurant, who chastises him, and why?

4. Booker's class at Tuskegee quickly grows to how many students?

5. In addition to teaching day and night classes and doing tutoring, Booker teaches:

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