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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 observes that during the Reconstruction Period, many who held public office were unable to do what after leaving office?
(a) Return to their communities.
(b) Hold another public office.
(c) Make trustworthy friends.
(d) Find work.

2. The author tells the story of finding a ten-dollar bill while working at a restaurant. What happens when he shows the money to the proprietor?
(a) A customer tells them it was left as a tip.
(b) The proprietor asks his customers who is missing ten dollars.
(c) The proprietor keeps it.
(d) Two customers come forward to claim the money.

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

4. Booker's night school at Hampton expands from twelve students to:
(a) Close to fifty.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) More than twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter "Boyhood Days," what does Booker say he does in order to get to school on time?

2. Who dies at the end of Booker's second year at Hampton?

3. When Booker is hired as a waiter at a classy restaurant, who chastises him, and why?

4. Booker explains that some girls who had worked as laundresses went to school for six to eight years and came out not wanting to do laundry but wanting:

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

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