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Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Booker is asked how his school can succeed with him gone so much, what does he reply?
(a) The students are industrious and can take care of themselves.
(b) The school can't succeed if nobody goes out to talk about it and generate support.
(c) The school is organized such that others can take over aspects of the operation in his absence.
(d) He leaves precise, detailed instructions for the teachers and administrators.

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

3. What happens to Booker's second wife?
(a) She dies young.
(b) She leaves him.
(c) She is kidnapped.
(d) She drowns.

4. The author notes that many people who got an inkling of education became:
(a) Public speakers or politicians.
(b) Teachers or preachers.
(c) Doctors or attorneys.
(d) Entrepreneurs or salesmen.

5. In the author's view, how would the freed slaves have been better served?
(a) If the state government had created a job-finding service for them.
(b) Through the availability of work-study programs.
(c) Through trained advisors who could help with the transition.
(d) If the federal government had made plans to teach them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Booker turn down offers from publishers and speech circuits?

2. Booker states that in addition to receiving book knowledge in school, former slaves should be taught:

3. When Booker wants a cap in order to fit in at his school, what does his mother do?

4. When Booker travels with a young Indian boy who is ill, how are they treated by outsiders?

5. In "The Reconstruction Period" chapter, what does the author conclude about many teachers and preachers, as well as some politicians?

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