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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Last Words.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of Booker's two sons?
(a) Jonathan and Edward.
(b) Booker and Ernest.
(c) Lewis and Edison.
(d) Elias and Jacob.

2. What does Booker say about calm, self-possessed people?
(a) They lack drive.
(b) They make good parents.
(c) They make the best teachers.
(d) They are the most successful.

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

4. Why do members of the community buy the bricks made by Booker's students?
(a) They are quality bricks, and there is no nearby competition.
(b) The bricks aren't of the best quality, but they are inexpensive.
(c) The bricks are far superior to what local competitors make.
(d) The community tries to help the school in every way possible.

5. Booker says that officials and leaders who visit the Tuskegee Institute are what?
(a) Impressed by its progress.
(b) Ready to help in every way possible.
(c) Anxious to see results.
(d) Appalled by conditions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Although he is uncertain of the exact location of his birth, Booker T. Washington believes he was born near a:

3. Who mentors Booker as he tries to establish a school in Tuskegee?

4. Teachers at Tuskegee are largely recruited from where?

5. Who is Booker's second wife?

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