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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lightened DuBois’ teacher training?
(a) Picnics.
(b) Religious services.
(c) Concerts.
(d) Marriage.

2. In what realm does DuBois want to work alongside whites?
(a) The kingdom of culture.
(b) The free market.
(c) The public sphere.
(d) The international stage.

3. What ideal did Booker T. Washington believe in, that allowed him to lead?
(a) Material prosperity.
(b) Religious transcendence.
(c) Intellectual equality.
(d) Political representation.

4. To whom does the burden of the Negro Problem belong, in DuBois' account?
(a) The nation.
(b) The world.
(c) The slave owners.
(d) The South.

5. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?
(a) In the library.
(b) In the sewer.
(c) On the scaffold.
(d) On the throne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the goal of relief efforts for blacks, in DuBois' account?

2. Who told DuBois of the school where he ended up teaching?

3. What does DuBois propose to measure a bushel of wheat against, at the end of Chapter 4?

4. What is the central problem DuBois addresses?

5. How does DuBois characterize the arrival of freedom for blacks in America?

(see the answer key)

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