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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Worrying over his students, Booker often loses:
(a) His appetite.
(b) Money.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Weight.

2. After traveling two thousand miles to give his five-minute speech, what does Booker do?
(a) Attends a dinner event.
(b) Spends time sightseeing.
(c) Takes a train back to Boston.
(d) Returns home.

3. What agreement is made so that Booker can spend more time at school?
(a) He will work odd jobs to earn money to pay for school.
(b) His mother will hire a helper for the house.
(c) He will work mornings and afternoons, attending school in between work shifts.
(d) His brother and sister will help tend to the sheep.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Booker say about the way that Southerners treat him?

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

3. What is the first number that Booker says he learns?

4. What do Booker and his students discover when they first try to make bricks?

5. When Booker goes to the smoking car of a train after dining with two women, what happens?

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