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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to teaching day and night classes and doing tutoring, Booker teaches:

2. What does Booker observe about individuals educated in more affluent schools where the majority of their needs are met?

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

4. Booker states that the vast majority of blacks at Hampton are more than willing to:

5. What do the Hampton night school students earn money for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. According to Booker, how might blacks suddenly faced with freedom have been better served?

4. What does young Booker do on the plantation as a slave?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Booker T. Washington's life as a child and a slave with his life as an adult and an educator.

Essay Topic 2

What kind of teacher is Booker? What makes him stand apart? How does he regard his students? How do his students regard him? In what ways is he an exceptional educator?

Essay Topic 3

1. Explain Booker's views on manual labor. Why does he feel this way?

2. As a teacher and a director, how does Booker incorporate manual labor into his educational curriculum? Cite specific examples from the book.

3. How do students, other teachers, and parents feel about Booker's methods of adding practical skills to his educational curriculum? Explain.

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