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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person who wants to be free have to do, according to the poem that opens chapter 3?
(a) Receive a blow.
(b) Withdraw his fist.
(c) Strike a blow.
(d) Stop the fight.

2. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
(a) Accept your submission.
(b) Pay us for freeing you.
(c) Wait seven generations for full equality.
(d) Rise to your potential.

3. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?
(a) Educate them.
(b) Give them work.
(c) Send them home.
(d) Send them north.

4. Booker T. Washington’s ascendancy is the most remarkable event in American race relations since when, according to DuBois?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1860.

5. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?
(a) He says that life does not know him.
(b) He says that he lives within the Veil.
(c) He says that he is superfluous.
(d) He says that he is invisible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What most of the hundred hills of Atlanta crowned with, according to DuBois?

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

3. Who did DuBois enjoy staying with the best?

4. What was Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?

5. When were the slaves emancipated in the U.S.?

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