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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 does Booker purchase to help his students learn more about working with their hands?
(a) A dilapidated barn.
(b) The remains of a plantation.
(c) A defunct restaurant.
(d) An acre of forest land.

2. 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.

3. On his way to Hampton, Booker stops at Richmond to earn money for the remainder of his journey. What work does he do in Richmond?
(a) Paints a building.
(b) Unloads a ship.
(c) Digs ditches.
(d) Delivers groceries.

4. Due to overcrowding at Hampton, there isn't enough room in the dormitories and some students have to spend the winter in:
(a) Cardboard boxes.
(b) School hallways.
(c) Barns.
(d) Tents.

5. Booker T. Washington spends his early years, from his birth until the end of the Civil War, as:
(a) A homeless child.
(b) A slave.
(c) A refugee.
(d) An orphan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say that all of the newly freed, former slaves want?

2. While living with his stepfather, young Booker works:

3. To help Booker while he's studying at Hampton, who sends him small amounts of money whenever possible?

4. What do the Hampton night school students do during the day?

5. What is Booker's brother's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Upon obtaining their freedom, where do Booker and his family go?

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

3. What is "The Plucky Class?"

4. What important lesson does Booker learn working with Miss Mackie, whom he describes as a member of a cultured Northern family?

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

6. What is the Tuskegee Institute like in its earliest days?

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

8. Who is Olivia A. Davidson?

9. How does Booker T. Washington end up overseeing a new school in Tuskegee, Alabama?

10. What does Booker say that many blacks aspire to during the post-Civil War "Reconstruction Period?"

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