Reading Comprehension Quiz (Booker T. Washington, “The Atlanta Exposition Address”)

Reading Comprehension Quiz

Booker T. Washington, “The Atlanta Exposition Address”

Read “The Atlanta Exposition Address” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.

Question In the second full paragraph, Washington notes that “a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill.” Why is this?

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Question In the famous line “Cast down your bucket where you are,” Washington is appealing to both the African Americans and the white Southerners in the audience. What is he saying?

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Question In paragraph 4, Washington writes about “whatever other sins the South may be called to bear.” To what sins is he referring?

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Question Washington notes that “in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands” (par. 4). What does Washington think has been the problem up this point in the African American community?

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Question In this speech, Washington is suggesting to his audience that they need to stop

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Question Paragraph 8 carries a threat. What is that threat?

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Question In paragraph 10, the first line is “The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.” How can this best be summed up?

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