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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Secret of Success in Public Speaking.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Booker decides to go to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, how does his community help him?
(a) Offering transportation.
(b) Giving him small donations.
(c) Buying him a few school supplies.
(d) Writing letters of recommendation.

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

3. 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 hollowed out spot in the middle of the floor for storing sweet potatoes.
(c) A large closet for storing sweet potatoes to be dried for the winter.
(d) A large outdoor storage bin for holding potatoes to be processed the next day.

4. When Booker travels by train and two women recognize him, they insist that he join them for dinner. Why does this worry him?
(a) He does not want his girlfriend to become jealous.
(b) He does not recognize them and wonders what they want.
(c) He expects to be confronted because he is a black man dining in the white section.
(d) He does not want their husbands to become jealous.

5. How long does it take Booker's school to raise enough money to pay off debt?
(a) Two years.
(b) Fifteen months.
(c) A few months.
(d) Ten months.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to repay debts Booker's school has accumulated, his co-teacher holds what type of fundraisers?

2. Booker T. Washington spends his early years, from his birth until the end of the Civil War, as:

3. What does Booker remark regarding the acceptance of Indians by the blacks at Hampton?

4. In "Raising Money," although Washington's meeting with a potential donor for his school doesn't go quite as expected, what happens years later?

5. Booker points out that those who can't offer his Tuskegee school monetary donations instead offer:

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