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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. Booker's class at Tuskegee quickly grows to how many students?
(a) Eighty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) One hundred.

2. 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) Two customers come forward to claim the money.
(c) The proprietor asks his customers who is missing ten dollars.
(d) The proprietor keeps it.

3. What does Booker purchase to help his students learn more about working with their hands?
(a) An acre of forest land.
(b) A defunct restaurant.
(c) The remains of a plantation.
(d) A dilapidated barn.

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

5. With a working kiln, Booker and his students make bricks for their school and for what other purpose?
(a) To build a homeless shelter.
(b) To sell to the community.
(c) For a hurricane shelter.
(d) For a community center.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Booker first starts school, why is he not able to attend full time?

2. After his first year at Hampton, where does Booker work during the summer?

3. Why do members of the community buy the bricks made by Booker's students?

4. What does the author say he learns about manual labor from Miss Mackie?

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

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