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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Teaching School in a Stable and a Hen House.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When the author writes about the condition of the school he oversees in Tuskegee, what does he say about an umbrella?
(a) When Booker's umbrella tears in a violent storm, there are no funds available for a replacement, so he patches it up.
(b) There is only one umbrella available to the class, and students take turns using it.
(c) On rainy days, a student holds an umbrella over Booker's head because the classroom leaks.
(d) On "Teacher Appreciation Day," the students collect just enough money to buy Booker a gift of an umbrella.

3. What does Booker purchase to help his students learn more about working with their hands?
(a) A defunct restaurant.
(b) An acre of forest land.
(c) A dilapidated barn.
(d) The remains of a plantation.

4. The Reconstruction Period refers to the:
(a) Post-Civil War era.
(b) Pre-Civil War era.
(c) Era of migration from farms to factories.
(d) Railroad building era.

5. Booker states that many former slaves wanted to:
(a) Hold public office.
(b) Move to another country.
(c) Move to New York.
(d) Become attorneys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say that all of the newly freed, former slaves want?

2. What is the potato bin that Booker describes from his childhood home?

3. In June of 1881, Booker is hired to oversee what kind of school in Tuskegee?

4. When he teaches back home in Malden, what does Booker include in his curriculum for his day classes?

5. Shortly after acquiring their freedom, where does the author's family move to?

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