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

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

3. The author completes his studies at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute:
(a) Even though half the class fails.
(b) Owing the school a large sum of money.
(c) In time to attend his sister's wedding.
(d) With honors.

4. 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) Six eggs offered by an older woman.
(c) A chicken offered by an older man.
(d) An accordion offered by a blind man.

5. What does Booker quickly discover about the Indians at Hampton?
(a) They are eager to share their traditions, stories, and languages with others.
(b) They are eager to learn and seek ways to make his life more comfortable.
(c) They feel more comfortable in outdoor settings.
(d) They choose to speak only their tribal languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes Tuskegee Institute's treasurer and substitute principal?

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

3. What do Booker and his students discover when they first try to make bricks?

4. When he teaches back home in Malden, what does Booker include in his curriculum for his day classes?

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

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