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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. Why does Booker sell his own watch to raise fifteen dollars?
(a) To pay for patching up the school roof.
(b) To treat his students to lunch.
(c) To cover a portion of a student's tuition.
(d) To help fund his students' brick-building efforts.

2. What does Booker nickname the night school he teaches at Hampton?
(a) The Midnight Crowd.
(b) The Night Owls.
(c) The Brave Scholars.
(d) The Plucky Class.

3. What did Lewis Adams learn while still in slavery?
(a) Reading, writing, shoemaking, harness making, and tinsmithing.
(b) Working with precious metals and semi-precious stones.
(c) Reading, writing, dairy farming, cooking, and blacksmithing.
(d) Working with leather and metals.

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

5. In addition to teaching day and night classes and doing tutoring, Booker teaches:
(a) Sunday school.
(b) Theater.
(c) Piano.
(d) Athletics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who mentors Booker as he tries to establish a school in Tuskegee?

2. During a fight between blacks and whites, what happens to Mr. Ruffner, the white salt mines owner, when he stands up for the blacks?

3. Where does Booker go at the end of his second year at Hampton?

4. In the chapter "Boyhood Days," what does Booker say he does in order to get to school on time?

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

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