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$16.00
What is the amount of money Booker owed the Hampton Institute when he left after the first year.
100
The reason Booker was able to return home after his second year at Hampton.
What is money from his mother and brother, and a gift from one of his teachers?
100
The saddest and blankest moment in Booker's life
What is when he learned that his mother had died?
100
In Booker's opinion, the most far reaching or influential article of civilization.
What is the toothbrush?
100
Patrollers
What are bands of white men who hunted runaway slaves at night?
200
Disappointment
What Booker felt after he found out that he was not going to be able to sell his jacket and go home for vacation.
200
It was a desire of Booker's from an early age.
What is make the world better by speaking about "making the world better".
200
Enjoying meals at many homes in Malden where he told of his experiences at Hampton and speaking to groups of people at church.
What are the activities Booker enjoyed when he returned home?
200
The things Booker did when he returned to Malden, West Virginia.
What is creating a day school, a night school, a small reading-room, and a debate society? What is teaching Sunday school and giving private lessons?
200
A group that did not want the Negroes to be successful, so they burnt schoolhouses and churches.
What is the Ku Klux Klan or KKK?
300
Trustworthiness and Honesty
What are the character traits Booker showed when he told the restaurant owner about the $10.00 he found under the table?
300
The lesson Booker learned at school from his teachers.
What is learning that those who are the happiest are those who do the most for others?
300
The person who ended up helping Booker earn enough money to return to Hampton at the end of vacation.
Who is Mrs. Ruffner?
300
Booker's hardwork and determination finally paid off when this happened.
What is graduating on the "honour roll" of Commencement (graduation) speakers in June of 1875.
300
He was injured while defending coloured people and never fully recovered.
Who is General Ruffner?
400
A strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work.
What is ambition?
400
The 20 minutes between supper and evening study time.
What is the former idle time when Booker formed a group which would practice debate or public speaking?
400
The reason Booker had to return to Hampton 3 weeks early.
What is to help clean the school and help Miss Mackie prepare everything for the coming year?
400
The first job Booker had after he graduated and what happened on his first day.
What is a job as a waiter in a Connecticut Hotel and being demoted to a dishwasher, because he did not know how to wait tables?
400
What Booker received for teaching? (tangible and non-tangible)
What is a small salary from the public fund and the satisfaction of helping others?
500
Fortress Monroe
What is the restaurant that Booker worked in during vacation.
500
It usually happened when the salt miners had saved enough money, but afterwards they usually ended up in debt and worse off.
What is a strike or refusing to work?
500
It caused confusion in their household and left things in disarray.
What is the death of Booker's mother.
500
The greatest benefits of the Hampton Institute.
What is meeting General S.C. Armstrong and learning to love education and labor.
500
It became a tradition in Booker's family.
What is attending the Hampton Institute?