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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 say that the poor families of Tuskegee typically eat?
(a) Biscuits and grits with gravy.
(b) Chicken and rice.
(c) Lima beans, wheat rolls, and onions.
(d) Corn bread, peas, and pork fat.

2. While living with his stepfather, young Booker works:
(a) Selling salt door to door.
(b) Driving salt trucks.
(c) Delivering salt to merchants.
(d) At salt furnaces.

3. The author completes his studies at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute:
(a) In time to attend his sister's wedding.
(b) Even though half the class fails.
(c) With honors.
(d) Owing the school a large sum of money.

4. Booker feels that the people of Tuskegee should be using part of their land for what?
(a) Growing vegetables.
(b) Raising dairy cows.
(c) Raising chickens and geese.
(d) Planting trees.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As a child, Booker lives in a cabin that also serves as:

2. What does the author say he learns about manual labor from Miss Mackie?

3. Who mentors Booker as he tries to establish a school in Tuskegee?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Booker do after completing his studies with honors?

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

3. What two things does Washington say every former slave who is newly freed wants?

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

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

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

7. Booker decides it's time for him to go to Hampton. What is Hampton?

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

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

10. Who is Olivia A. Davidson?

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