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

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

3. Shortly after acquiring their freedom, where does the author's family move to?
(a) Elkins, West Virginia.
(b) Mather, Pennsylvania.
(c) Malden, West Virginia.
(d) Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Booker nickname the night school he teaches at Hampton?

2. What is Booker's brother's name?

3. Booker feels that some individuals were not served well enough by their education and that, in the end, their desires increased but:

4. When the Emancipation Proclamation is read to slaves, freeing them immediately, what does Booker say they consider after their initial celebration?

5. How does Booker T. Washington get his last name?

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