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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which was NOT one of the parties DuBois broke Southern society into, after the Civil War?
(a) The Conquerors.
(b) The Negro.
(c) The Conquered.
(d) The poor.

2. What does DuBois propose to measure a bushel of wheat against, at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Heartfuls of sorrow.
(b) Lynched black men.
(c) Black women’s tears.
(d) Black blood.

3. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?
(a) Rest.
(b) Justice.
(c) Revenge.
(d) God.

4. Who made the final word on policy regarding escaped slaves arriving in Union Army lines?
(a) Butler.
(b) Cameron.
(c) Fremont.
(d) Halleck.

5. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?
(a) Safe.
(b) Proud.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Elation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?

2. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?

3. What was Fremont’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?

4. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?

5. Which of these things did Booker T. Washington NOT ask American Negroes to give up?

(see the answer key)

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