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

2. What do the Hampton night school students earn money for?
(a) To help pay for tuition to Hampton's regular school.
(b) To support their families.
(c) To put in the bank for when they're out of school.
(d) To buy their school meals and pay for their rooms.

3. As a child, Booker lives in a cabin that also serves as:
(a) A garden tool storage shed.
(b) A chicken coop.
(c) The plantation's kitchen.
(d) The community's meeting hall.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Booker states that many former slaves wanted to:

2. By saving enough money, who does Booker help send to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute?

3. What does the author say he learns about manual labor from Miss Mackie?

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

5. In the author's view, how would the freed slaves have been better served?

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