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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 the author say he learns about manual labor from Miss Mackie?
(a) It should be done quietly and discreetly.
(b) It's better to pay someone else to do it.
(c) Shortcuts for doing the job faster.
(d) It has its rewards and is nothing to be ashamed of.

2. When Booker first starts school, why is he not able to attend full time?
(a) His mother needs his help around the house.
(b) He cannot afford to pay the tuition.
(c) His stepfather forces him to continue working.
(d) He has to take care of the family's sheep.

3. When he arrives at the school he's overseeing in Tuskegee, what does Booker find?
(a) No accommodations and plenty of anxious students.
(b) The wrong textbooks have been ordered.
(c) A large facility with very few students.
(d) There is a severe shortage of teachers.

4. The Reconstruction Period refers to the:
(a) Era of migration from farms to factories.
(b) Pre-Civil War era.
(c) Post-Civil War era.
(d) Railroad building era.

5. When the author writes about the condition of the school he oversees in Tuskegee, what does he say about an umbrella?
(a) On "Teacher Appreciation Day," the students collect just enough money to buy Booker a gift of an umbrella.
(b) When Booker's umbrella tears in a violent storm, there are no funds available for a replacement, so he patches it up.
(c) On rainy days, a student holds an umbrella over Booker's head because the classroom leaks.
(d) There is only one umbrella available to the class, and students take turns using it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Booker go at the end of his second year at Hampton?

2. Booker observes that during the Reconstruction Period, many who held public office were unable to do what after leaving office?

3. All of Booker's students at Tuskegee are at least:

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

5. After completing his studies and returning to Malden, Booker is hired to work as a teacher. His workdays start at 8:00 AM and don't end until what time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What challenges does Booker encounter along his journey to Hampton?

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

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

4. How does Booker describe the residents of Tuskegee?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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