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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lewis Adams learn while still in slavery?
(a) Reading, writing, shoemaking, harness making, and tinsmithing.
(b) Working with precious metals and semi-precious stones.
(c) Working with leather and metals.
(d) Reading, writing, dairy farming, cooking, and blacksmithing.

2. 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.

3. In addition to teaching day and night classes and doing tutoring, Booker teaches:
(a) Theater.
(b) Athletics.
(c) Sunday school.
(d) Piano.

4. Booker explains that many Tuskegee families offered gifts to help out his school. Which gift touched him the most?
(a) Six eggs offered by an older woman.
(b) A chicken offered by an older man.
(c) Two pennies offered by a child.
(d) An accordion offered by a blind man.

5. In June of 1881, Booker is hired to oversee what kind of school in Tuskegee?
(a) A "normal school," which is a school that trains teachers.
(b) A "one-room school," where different grade levels are taught in one class.
(c) A religious school for seminary students.
(d) A boarding school for pre-med students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Booker feels that the people of Tuskegee should be using part of their land for what?

2. In the chapter "Boyhood Days," what does Booker say he does in order to get to school on time?

3. To start with, how many students does Booker have at his school in Tuskegee?

4. During a fight between blacks and whites, what happens to Mr. Ruffner, the white salt mines owner, when he stands up for the blacks?

5. Booker notes that even though the slaves are well informed, the biggest downfall is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Booker and his family reach their new home after they are freed?

2. Who works closely with Booker to establish the new school in Tuskegee?

3. What does Booker T. Washington know about his birth?

4. Describe Mrs. Ruffner and the work Booker does for her.

5. What does Booker say about those who become teachers and preachers?

6. How do the blacks and the Indians get along at Hampton?

7. Describe Booker's experience of traveling with an Indian boy who is ill.

8. Describe Booker's early childhood family and home.

9. How does Booker describe the residents of Tuskegee?

10. What does Booker mean when he says that the people of Tuskegee are prone to some excess?

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