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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Black Race and Red Race.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Booker states that the vast majority of blacks at Hampton are more than willing to:
(a) Accept the Indians into their school.
(b) Learn and practice the traditions of the Indians.
(c) Work three jobs while studying.
(d) Spend less than six hours sleeping in order to have more study time.

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

3. Why do young Booker and his family live in the plantation's kitchen?
(a) It was a guest house before being converted into a kitchen.
(b) It's warmer than the cabins on the property.
(c) There's probably no room elsewhere on the plantation.
(d) The family most likely is asked to live there.

4. Booker notes that many blacks of his era wanted to learn what two languages?
(a) Latin and Greek.
(b) Greek and Spanish.
(c) French and Latin.
(d) Spanish and French.

5. When Booker works for Mrs. Ruffner, how much is he paid?
(a) Ten dollars a month.
(b) Ten dollars a week.
(c) Five dollars a month.
(d) Five dollars a week.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. As a child, Booker lives in a cabin that also serves as:

4. Due to overcrowding at Hampton, there isn't enough room in the dormitories and some students have to spend the winter in:

5. The author states that those earning seventy-five or a hundred dollars a month were:

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