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

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

3. By saving enough money, who does Booker help send to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute?
(a) His adopted brother James and his cousin David.
(b) His brother John and their adopted brother James.
(c) His sister Amanda and their cousin David.
(d) His brother John and his sister Amanda.

4. When Booker is hired as a waiter at a classy restaurant, who chastises him, and why?
(a) The proprietor, for dropping a tray.
(b) The host, for getting in the way of other waiters.
(c) The cook, for getting the order wrong.
(d) The men he's waiting on, for doing a poor job.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Booker travels with a young Indian boy who is ill, how are they treated by outsiders?

2. Booker's night school at Hampton expands from twelve students to:

3. What do the Hampton night school students do during the day?

4. Why does Booker have his students build the Tuskegee Institute's buildings?

5. What did Lewis Adams learn while still in slavery?

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