Chapter 8 Quiz

1. Chapter 8 Quiz Teaching School in a Stable and a Hen House

2. Short answer • Why did white people question the value of the school? • White people did question the value of the school, because they worried that Negroes, once educated, would then leave the farms where they worked and they wouldn’t accept domestic service anymore. • What was the problem of the pupils who came to the school ? • Unfortunately, they came into the school with preconceived ideas about what they would learn. They could memorize long rules and information but couldn’t apply them to everyday life. They thought an education meant automatically earning more money. 

3. What was miss Davidson’s occupation ?Where was it and why did she come to the south? • She had been a yellow fever nurse in Ohio, but came to the South, because she thought people needed more than mere book learning. • What was the first setback booker and olive faced? • The first setback they faced was the attitude that getting an education meant no longer working with their hands. 

4. How did they overcome the problem for a proper setting for the school ? • They overcame their need for a proper setting for the school when they found a plantation where the big house had burned, but the outbuildings were still intact. • How much money did they need for this ?How did they get it ? • They only needed five hundred dollars, a cheap price for so much land, but they didn’t have it. Booker wrote to General J. F. B. Marshall, the treasurer of the Hampton Institute, who gladly agreed to loan Booker the money from his own personal funds.

5. Describe the school on the old plantation ?How did he make the buildings workable ?Explain.(10 Points if all points mentioned) • They moved the school to the old plantation. There was a cabin used as a former dining room, an old kitchen, a stable, and an old hen house. Within a few weeks, all these buildings were in use. Booker put the students to work to make the buildings workable. He also determined to clear some of the land so that they could plant a crop. At first, the students resisted the work, but then, when they saw how hard Booker himself worked, they approached it with more enthusiasm.

6. How did they payback Mr. Marshall ?(10 Points if all points mentioned, 3 for each point) • Miss Davidson organized festivals or “suppers.” She canvassed people in the community personally for contributions. • Various sums came from both races, but sometimes, the people had no money. • One old colored woman hobbled into the school dressed in little more than clean rags. However, no matter how poor she was, she wanted to give something top the school. So, she offered all she had: six eggs.

7. Fill in the blanks : • The school opened on __________. • July 4, 1881 • The original letter to General Armstrong came from a white man,________, and a black man and ex-slave, _________. • Mr. George W. Campbell, Mr. Lewis Adams • ________ students reported for admission and all were above ___ years of age and had some previous education. • 30,15 • At the end of the first six weeks, a new face entered the school - _________, who later became Booker’s _____. • Miss Olive A. Davidson, Wife

8. She was trained at the ________, and to Booker, she had a rare moral character and lived a life of ___________. • Massachusetts State Normal School, unselfishness. • Booker came to believe that the most leading and reliable colored men in the community would those who learned a_____. That would be the foundation of his _________. • Trade, Educational plan.