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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Booker say happens when a student defaces property at the Tuskegee school?
(a) Another student chastises the action.
(b) Teachers lower the student's grade.
(c) The student must repair or pay for the damages.
(d) The student is expelled for a week.

2. What do Booker and his co-teacher at Tuskegee agree they need to add to their curriculum?
(a) Latin.
(b) Music.
(c) Hygiene.
(d) Agriculture.

3. Who is Booker's second wife?
(a) Miss Ruthie.
(b) Miss Jefferson.
(c) Miss Mackie.
(d) Miss Davidson.

4. In "Raising Money," after his meeting with a man whom he expected would donate to his school, how does Booker feel?
(a) Very grateful.
(b) As though he wasted his time.
(c) Elated.
(d) Angry but not defeated.

5. Booker explains that many Tuskegee families offered gifts to help out his school. Which gift touched him the most?
(a) An accordion offered by a blind man.
(b) A chicken offered by an older man.
(c) Two pennies offered by a child.
(d) Six eggs offered by an older woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Booker go at the end of his second year at Hampton?

2. During his big speech in 1895, what does Booker focus on?

3. How do the Tuskegee students treat Booker T. Washington?

4. After Booker and his family move into a small cabin with his stepfather in a salt-mining community, what do they discover about their new home?

5. Booker remarks that too many people use the Christmas season as:

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