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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Booker handle complaints by parents who don't want their students to do manual labor at his school?
(a) He excuses their children from doing manual labor.
(b) He ignores them.
(c) He gives the parents a lecture about the benefits of hard work.
(d) He recruits these parents to help with construction projects.

2. When Booker is asked how his school can succeed with him gone so much, what does he reply?
(a) He leaves precise, detailed instructions for the teachers and administrators.
(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) The students are industrious and can take care of themselves.

3. In the chapter "Raising Money," what is the outcome of the meeting Booker has with a man he had been told might be interested in donating to his school?
(a) The man does not make a donation.
(b) The man cuts the meeting short and asks Booker to leave.
(c) The man explains he is no longer wealthy.
(d) The man donates a large sum.

4. Who is Washington's third wife?
(a) Martha Jones Jackson.
(b) Elizabeth Stanton Smith.
(c) Margaret James Murray.
(d) JoEllen Agnes Baker.

5. Booker states that efforts to foster community support for his Tuskegee school are:
(a) Taking up too much of his time.
(b) Successful.
(c) Tiresome.
(d) Met with resistance.

6. At his speaking engagement at the expo in 1895, Booker is:
(a) Hailed as a hero.
(b) The only southerner invited to speak at the event.
(c) The only black man invited to speak at the event.
(d) Booed loudly.

7. Regarding the people that Booker approaches to support Tuskegee Institute, he notes that:
(a) Most are uninterested.
(b) Most consider him to be doing "our work."
(c) Few actually offer funds.
(d) Most try to find a polite way to get out of helping.

8. When Booker goes to the smoking car of a train after dining with two women, what happens?
(a) Everyone greets him and talks to him about his work.
(b) He is asked to leave.
(c) He is greeted politely and left alone.
(d) Everyone in the smoking car walks out.

9. Who is Robert C. Bedford?
(a) The director of a nearby white elementary school.
(b) A black pastor at a white church.
(c) A white pastor at a black church.
(d) The director of a nearby black elementary school.

10. In his chapter on public speaking, the author expresses that before a speech, he:
(a) Never ceases to be nervous.
(b) Practices in front of the mirror.
(c) Takes a warm bath to relax.
(d) Typically rewrites his entire speech.

11. What happens when Booker and his students try to construct a kiln for baking bricks?
(a) They fail once, and then get experts to construct the kiln.
(b) They fail in their first four attempts.
(c) It works perfectly the first time.
(d) Two students are seriously injured.

12. What does Booker T. Washington say that General Armstrong teaches him about racial prejudice?
(a) With much effort, it can be overcome.
(b) It's a waste of time and energy.
(c) It's a sin.
(d) It's unavoidable.

13. When Booker travels by train and two women recognize him, they insist that he join them for dinner. Why does this worry him?
(a) He expects to be confronted because he is a black man dining in the white section.
(b) He does not recognize them and wonders what they want.
(c) He does not want his girlfriend to become jealous.
(d) He does not want their husbands to become jealous.

14. What expo is Booker invited to speak at in September of 1895?
(a) The International Northern States Exposition.
(b) The Alabama Agricultural and Industrial Exposition.
(c) The Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition.
(d) The Boston World Exposition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Booker say it was worth the effort to travel two thousand miles to give a five-minute speech?

2. When Booker is schedule to speak in Boston, he's also invited to speak where?

3. Booker points out that those who can't offer his Tuskegee school monetary donations instead offer:

4. During his speech at the Atlanta Exposition, Washington says people need to work together to pull the South up, or else:

5. When Booker gets up one evening to check on a group of young men at Tuskegee, what does he find?

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