Booker T. Washington, from Up From Slavery Quiz

A  a shift to the use of African American dialect for Washington and other black people’s speech

B  an increasingly “stream of consciousness” narration of Washington’s own mental state

C  the inclusion of transcripts of letters and testimonials from white men in positions of power

D  the inclusion of lyrics from traditional African American “sorrow songs” and biblical texts

A  He believed that African Americans deserved equal civil rights but was pessimistic that white Southerners would ever allow them to claim those rights.

B  He believed that African Americans deserved and would one day achieve equal civil rights but that those rights would have to be given freely by white Southerners.

C  He believed that African Americans were inherently inferior to whites and should thus accept an inferior social and legal status for perpetuity.

D  He believed that civil rights could be achieved only through active and concerted political organization and through an insistence on the right to vote.

A  positions in Congress and state legislatures

B  manual labor, including jobs in agriculture, industry, and domestic service

C  new leadership roles in the arts and cultural institutions

D  a return to enslavement throughout the entire nation

A  Adult former slaves believed that education was valuable for children, but that they themselves were too old to learn.

B  Former slaves were too busy trying to figure out how to earn a living to have time for education.

C  Children of freed slaves resented that their parents forced them to attend school instead of being allowed to play.

D  Almost every freed slave was hungry for education and took extreme measures to obtain any form of learning.

A  They wanted to start local black churches and build their own separate towns and villages.

B  They wanted to change their names and travel away from the location where they had been enslaved.

C  They wanted to ransack the plantations on which they had been enslaved and learn to read.

D  They wanted to open bank accounts and marry their spouses in an officially recognized church.

A  religious conversion to Christianity

B  mastery of handicrafts and manual labor

C  training in literacy and Western philosophical traditions

D  a disposition toward self-reliance, strength, and confidence

A  He blames enslaved blacks for failing to rise up against their white owners and end slavery.

B  He blames greedy white Southerners who wanted to profit from the work of enslaved blacks.

C  He blames European explorers for introducing the concept of slavery to the Americas.

D  He blames no one in particular except the federal government, which supported slavery laws.

A  Black Southerners were committed to an unresentful conciliation and patience.

B  Black Southerners were committed to violent retaliation.

C  Black Southerners felt bitter and deep-seated resentment.

D  Black Southerners expressed a grudging willingness to work together.

A  Washington idolized his white biological father and resented his black stepfather’s intrusions into his family after his father’s death.

B  When Washington’s white biological father rejected his attempts to forge a relationship, Washington formed a close bond with his black stepfather.

C  Washington had no relationship at all with his white biological father, and describes his black stepfather as an obstruction to his pursuit of education.

D  Washington never knew his white biological father, but was inspired by his reputation for learning and scholarship; his black stepfather, however, did not support education.

A  It was comfortable and relatively happy.

B  It was neither particularly happy nor difficult.

C  It was discouraging and uncomfortable.

D  He remembers nothing about his childhood.