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Booker T. Washington, from Up From Slavery Quiz

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Question #1
A  a shift to the use of African American dialect for Washington and other black people’s speech
B  the inclusion of lyrics from traditional African American “sorrow songs” and biblical texts
C  an increasingly “stream of consciousness” narration of Washington’s own mental state
D  the inclusion of transcripts of letters and testimonials from white men in positions of power
Question #2
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 were inherently inferior to whites and should thus accept an inferior social and legal status for perpetuity.
C  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.
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.
Question #3
A  new leadership roles in the arts and cultural institutions
B  manual labor, including jobs in agriculture, industry, and domestic service
C  a return to enslavement throughout the entire nation
D  positions in Congress and state legislatures
Question #4
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  Almost every freed slave was hungry for education and took extreme measures to obtain any form of learning.
D  Children of freed slaves resented that their parents forced them to attend school instead of being allowed to play.
Question #5
A  They wanted to change their names and travel away from the location where they had been enslaved.
B  They wanted to open bank accounts and marry their spouses in an officially recognized church.
C  They wanted to start local black churches and build their own separate towns and villages.
D  They wanted to ransack the plantations on which they had been enslaved and learn to read.
Question #6
A  training in literacy and Western philosophical traditions
B  a disposition toward self-reliance, strength, and confidence
C  mastery of handicrafts and manual labor
D  religious conversion to Christianity
Question #7
A  He blames enslaved blacks for failing to rise up against their white owners and end slavery.
B  He blames European explorers for introducing the concept of slavery to the Americas.
C  He blames greedy white Southerners who wanted to profit from the work of enslaved blacks.
D  He blames no one in particular except the federal government, which supported slavery laws.
Question #8
A  Black Southerners expressed a grudging willingness to work together.
B  Black Southerners were committed to an unresentful conciliation and patience.
C  Black Southerners were committed to violent retaliation.
D  Black Southerners felt bitter and deep-seated resentment.
Question #9
A  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.
B  Washington idolized his white biological father and resented his black stepfather’s intrusions into his family after his father’s death.
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  When Washington’s white biological father rejected his attempts to forge a relationship, Washington formed a close bond with his black stepfather.
Question #10
A  He remembers nothing about his childhood.
B  It was comfortable and relatively happy.
C  It was discouraging and uncomfortable.
D  It was neither particularly happy nor difficult.