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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Reconstruction Period.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the potato bin that Booker describes from his childhood home?
(a) A wooden bin under the porch for drying and storing potatoes.
(b) A large closet for storing sweet potatoes to be dried for the winter.
(c) A hollowed out spot in the middle of the floor for storing sweet potatoes.
(d) A large outdoor storage bin for holding potatoes to be processed the next day.

2. Booker states that in addition to receiving book knowledge in school, former slaves should be taught:
(a) How to look for and interview for a job.
(b) Practical skills, like cooking.
(c) That they can succeed in their new circumstances.
(d) That doing manual labor is not shameful.

3. When Booker wants a cap in order to fit in at his school, what does his mother do?
(a) Makes him a cap out of scrap denim.
(b) Sells her ring to buy him a cap.
(c) Buys less food to save money for a cap.
(d) Tells him to get a second job so he can afford to buy a cap.

4. In the author's view, how would the freed slaves have been better served?
(a) Through trained advisors who could help with the transition.
(b) If the state government had created a job-finding service for them.
(c) Through the availability of work-study programs.
(d) If the federal government had made plans to teach them.

5. As a young boy, one of Booker's jobs is what?
(a) None of these is correct.
(b) Taking wheat to the silo.
(c) Painting fences.
(d) Carrying corn to the mill.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the winter months, Mrs. Ruffner allows Booker to spend an hour a day doing what?

2. Booker says that even as a very young child, most of his time is spent:

3. The author completes his studies at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute:

4. What does Booker observe about individuals educated in more affluent schools where the majority of their needs are met?

5. Although he is uncertain of the exact location of his birth, Booker T. Washington believes he was born near a:

(see the answer key)

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