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Question 1

Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence.John Wilkes Booth was infamous for:

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assassinating Lincoln.

Question 2

What political event happened after Lincoln died?

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Andrew Johnson became president.

Question 3

After the Civil War, why did the South have more economic damage than the North?

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Most of the fighting had occurred in the South.; The South’s agricultural economy was severely damaged by the war.; The South had to give up slavery, which had been the basis of its economy.

Question 4

What were the economic challenges that arose after the war in the North and the South?Check any of the boxes that apply.

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The South had to rebuild many cities.; Plantation owners in the South had to find a new way to farm their land without the use of slave labor.

Question 5

Read the statement by a former enslaved worker. Then answer the question.Which of these statements best summarizes the main idea in this quote?

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Enslaved people were not provided for once slavery ended.

Question 6

The second line in the poem reads, “I am the darker brother.” What does that mean?

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The speaker is an African American.

Question 7

What is being compared in this excerpt?

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the world to a theatre production

Question 8

What challenges did people freed from slavery face?Check any of the boxes that apply.

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Finding the economic resources they needed to succeed; Exercising their new rights, such as the right to vote; Finding family members who had been separated by slavery

Question 9

When the speaker says, “They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes,” who are “they”?

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“They” represent white Americans.

Question 10

What is the extended metaphor in the poem “I, Too, Sing America”?

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Eating in the kitchen is being compared to racial segregation in America.

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