Why did Booker think that sweeping was the passing a college exam?

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Washington reached Hampton with great dificulty and a surplus of exactly fifty cents with which to begin his education. He presented himself before the head teacher for an assignment to a class but did not make a favourable impression upon her. There were doubts in her mind about the wisdom of admitting him as a student. After some hours the teacher asked him to sweep the recitation room and it occured to Washington that it was his chance. He swept thrice and dusted it our times. When she was unable to find one bit of dirt on the floor, or a particle of dust on any of the furniture, she quietly remarked, "I guess you will do to enter this institution." The sweeping of that room his college examination which got him admission to the Hampton Institute.

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