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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Booker observes that during the Reconstruction Period, many who held public office were unable to do what after leaving office?
(a) Return to their communities.
(b) Make trustworthy friends.
(c) Find work.
(d) Hold another public office.

3. As a child, Booker lives in a cabin that also serves as:
(a) The plantation's kitchen.
(b) A garden tool storage shed.
(c) A chicken coop.
(d) The community's meeting hall.

4. What project does Booker take over at Hampton?
(a) Overseeing the education of seventy-five Indians.
(b) Hiring Indians to rebuild the school.
(c) Hiring Indians to teach at the school.
(d) Building shelters for seventy-five Indians.

5. Booker's night school at Hampton expands from twelve students to:
(a) Close to fifty.
(b) More than twenty.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Fifteen.

6. How does Booker T. Washington get his last name?
(a) His father gives it to him.
(b) It belonged to his great-grandfather.
(c) He selects it when he starts school.
(d) The county clerk selects it and writes it on his birth certificate.

7. Who joins Booker as co-teacher at his school in Tuskegee?
(a) Ruthie Smith.
(b) George W. Campbell.
(c) Olivia A. Davidson.
(d) Lewis Adams.

8. When Booker decides to go to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, how does his community help him?
(a) Buying him a few school supplies.
(b) Giving him small donations.
(c) Writing letters of recommendation.
(d) Offering transportation.

9. When he teaches back home in Malden, what does Booker include in his curriculum for his day classes?
(a) Proper hygiene and personal care.
(b) Calculus, astronomy, and astrology.
(c) Latin, French, and Portuguese.
(d) Cooking, house cleaning, and woodworking.

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

11. Shortly after acquiring their freedom, where does the author's family move to?
(a) Malden, West Virginia.
(b) Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
(c) Elkins, West Virginia.
(d) Mather, Pennsylvania.

12. Once freed, how do Booker and his family reach their new home to live with his stepfather?
(a) Walk several hundred miles.
(b) Ride mules several hundred miles.
(c) Catch a train.
(d) Hitching rides in wagons.

13. To help Booker while he's studying at Hampton, who sends him small amounts of money whenever possible?
(a) His brother John.
(b) His previous employer, Mrs. Ruffner.
(c) His previous teachers.
(d) His mother and stepfather.

14. What does Booker nickname the night school he teaches at Hampton?
(a) The Midnight Crowd.
(b) The Plucky Class.
(c) The Night Owls.
(d) The Brave Scholars.

15. After completing his studies and returning to Malden, Booker is hired to work as a teacher. His workdays start at 8:00 AM and don't end until what time?
(a) 8:00 PM.
(b) 7:00 PM.
(c) 6:00 PM.
(d) 10:00 PM.

Short Answer Questions

1. Booker feels that some individuals were not served well enough by their education and that, in the end, their desires increased but:

2. When Booker works for Mrs. Ruffner, how much is he paid?

3. On his journey to Hampton, Booker runs out of money for public transportation. How does he continue his journey?

4. The author tells the story of finding a ten-dollar bill while working at a restaurant. What happens when he shows the money to the proprietor?

5. Booker explains that some girls who had worked as laundresses went to school for six to eight years and came out not wanting to do laundry but wanting:

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