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1. 1.

   In your opinion, how important is it to be educated?

2. 2.

   Do you know any child who has to work alongside attending school?

3. 3.

   Choose the correct options to complete the sentences.

   1. We know that Booker T Washington was poor because
      1. he did not know the alphabet.
      2. he could not read or write.
      3. his mother made him a cap of 'homespun'.
      4. he had an intense desire to read.
   2. The entire community was illiterate because
      1. they had not been to school.
      2. they were too poor to go to school.
      3. work was more important to them than education.
      4. they avoided going to school.
   3. Men and women who were fifty and seventy-five years old were attending night school because
      1. the day schools were too full for them.
      2. they worked during the day.
      3. they could study better at night.
      4. they did not want to be seen by others.
   4. The older people wanted to learn to read because
      1. they wanted to read the newspapers.
      2. they wanted to teach their children.
      3. they wanted to read the Bible.
      4. they wanted to seem intelligent.
   5. Booker advanced the hands of the clock because
      1. the clock was too slow.
      2. he wanted to leave early for school.
      3. it helped to reduce his work time.
      4. he did not want to study for too long.
4. 4.

   Why was the idea of starting a school a very exciting one for the speaker's people?

5. 5.

   How did they plan to house the teacher?

6. 6.

   Why were some people turned away in day schools and night schools?