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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 recruits these parents to help with construction projects.
(c) He gives the parents a lecture about the benefits of hard work.
(d) He excuses their children from doing manual labor.

2. Booker explains that many Tuskegee families offered gifts to help out his school. Which gift touched him the most?
(a) Two pennies offered by a child.
(b) A chicken offered by an older man.
(c) Six eggs offered by an older woman.
(d) An accordion offered by a blind man.

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

4. When he teaches back home in Malden, what does Booker include in his curriculum for his day classes?
(a) Latin, French, and Portuguese.
(b) Cooking, house cleaning, and woodworking.
(c) Proper hygiene and personal care.
(d) Calculus, astronomy, and astrology.

5. After his first year at Hampton, where does Booker work during the summer?
(a) Circus.
(b) Restaurant.
(c) Farm.
(d) Library.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Booker say about his school's treasurer?

4. What does Booker say about his job working in coalmines?

5. Booker states that the vast majority of blacks at Hampton are more than willing to:

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