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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. After dining with two women in a train's dining section, Booker goes to the smoking car where he expects:
(a) To be berated by the men.
(b) To meet up with a friend.
(c) To catch up on reading.
(d) To be asked to leave.

2. Teachers at Tuskegee are largely recruited from where?
(a) Howard.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Hampton.
(d) Princeton.

3. What happens when Booker and his students try to construct a kiln for baking bricks?
(a) Two students are seriously injured.
(b) It works perfectly the first time.
(c) They fail in their first four attempts.
(d) They fail once, and then get experts to construct the kiln.

4. When Booker goes to the smoking car of a train after dining with two women, what happens?
(a) Everyone greets him and talks to him about his work.
(b) Everyone in the smoking car walks out.
(c) He is greeted politely and left alone.
(d) He is asked to leave.

5. What does Booker say about calm, self-possessed people?
(a) They are the most successful.
(b) They lack drive.
(c) They make good parents.
(d) They make the best teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Booker visit with while traveling in Europe?

2. What does Booker feel should determine the right to vote?

3. What does Booker say about the way that Southerners treat him?

4. What do Booker and his students discover when they first try to make bricks?

5. Why does Washington travel with Armstrong throughout larger Northern cities?

Short Essay Questions

1. When he's not working, what does Booker enjoy doing?

2. What important lesson does Booker T. Washington say he learns from General Armstrong?

3. What happens after Booker walks two miles to a man's house to request a donation for his school?

4. During his speech to a large audience at the Atlanta Exposition, what does Booker focus on?

5. How is Booker's speech at the Atlanta Exposition received?

6. Why does Booker go to Europe?

7. Who is Rev. Robert C. Bedford?

8. What hardships are experienced when Booker, his staff, and his students launch a boarding program effort at Tuskegee?

9. Describe Booker's experience on a train ride where he dines in the white section.

10. How does a mill owner help out Booker's Tuskegee school?

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