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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Booker speaks of the Christmas season, what is his complaint?
(a) Churches must shorten their Christmas services.
(b) Stores sell too many unnecessary items.
(c) People give each other useless trinkets.
(d) People have forgotten the true meaning of Christmas.

2. In Europe, what observation does Booker make about Holland?
(a) The Dutch are industrious and progressive.
(b) The land is used economically.
(c) The colorful tulips add beauty to the land.
(d) The windmill designs are ingenious.

3. What does Booker say about the way that Southerners treat him?
(a) They treat him like royalty.
(b) They are indifferent to him.
(c) They treat him poorly.
(d) They never insult him.

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

5. Why does Booker say it was worth the effort to travel two thousand miles to give a five-minute speech?
(a) The women's group makes a generous donation to his school.
(b) He enjoyed meeting the President.
(c) He reaches influential people, and more speaking engagements result.
(d) He does not mind spreading the word about his school.

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

7. Why does Washington travel with Armstrong throughout larger Northern cities?
(a) To recruit new students.
(b) To learn from other educational programs.
(c) To gather donations for Tuskegee.
(d) To give lectures on successful teaching techniques.

8. Why do members of the community buy the bricks made by Booker's students?
(a) The community tries to help the school in every way possible.
(b) The bricks are far superior to what local competitors make.
(c) The bricks aren't of the best quality, but they are inexpensive.
(d) They are quality bricks, and there is no nearby competition.

9. 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.

10. What do Booker and his students discover when they first try to make bricks?
(a) It's not easy.
(b) It's easier than it looks.
(c) It's terribly time-consuming and boring.
(d) They don't have the right materials.

11. Booker is invited to serve on what kind of board?
(a) A teacher's rights board.
(b) An educational advancement board.
(c) An educational juror's board.
(d) An equal rights board.

12. After dining with two women in a train's dining section, Booker goes to the smoking car where he expects:
(a) To be asked to leave.
(b) To be berated by the men.
(c) To catch up on reading.
(d) To meet up with a friend.

13. When asking for funds for his school from the wealthy, Booker notes that it's best to:
(a) Try to make the donors feel guilty.
(b) Speak loudly and quickly to generate excitement.
(c) Present facts about the school and not appear to beg.
(d) Compliment the donors profusely.

14. Who does Booker visit with while traveling in Europe?
(a) Thomas Edison and Marie Curie.
(b) The Queen of England.
(c) The King of Spain.
(d) Mark Twain and Susan B. Anthony.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When Booker is asked how his school can succeed with him gone so much, what does he reply?

4. After traveling two thousand miles to give his five-minute speech, what does Booker do?

5. "Porter Hall" at Tuskegee Institute is named after whom?

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