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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 do students learn to do on the property that Booker purchases for his school?
(a) Clean the buildings and plant crops.
(b) Restore the building, then prepare and serve food.
(c) Refurbish the building and tend to farm animals.
(d) Cut down trees and build cabins.

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

3. Why do young Booker and his family live in the plantation's kitchen?
(a) It was a guest house before being converted into a kitchen.
(b) It's warmer than the cabins on the property.
(c) There's probably no room elsewhere on the plantation.
(d) The family most likely is asked to live there.

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

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 boarding school for pre-med students.
(c) A religious school for seminary students.
(d) A "one-room school," where different grade levels are taught in one class.

Short Answer Questions

1. At Hampton, the blacks and the Indians:

2. The author notes that many people who got an inkling of education became:

3. How do the people of Tuskegee find Booker to oversee their school?

4. How does Booker T. Washington get his last name?

5. By saving enough money, who does Booker help send to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Booker purchase an old plantation for the Tuskegee Institute?

4. Who is Olivia A. Davidson?

5. What does Booker do at the end of his first year at Hampton?

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

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

8. How do blacks react upon being read the Emancipation Proclamation?

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

10. Explain why Booker feels that many students come out of school with an education but without the ability to make a living.

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