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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does DuBois say is the problem of the twentieth century?
(a) The dangers from Europe.
(b) The expansion of America.
(c) The relations of races.
(d) The development of markets.

2. What is the central problem DuBois addresses?
(a) Religion.
(b) Security.
(c) Education.
(d) Commerce.

3. What does the first stream of thought call for, which DuBois describes in Chapter 6?
(a) Power to rule over powerless.
(b) Wisdom to help the helpless.
(c) Hierarchical gradations of personhood.
(d) Cooperation between men globally.

4. What does Hippomenes do to win the race and marry Atalanta?
(a) Divert the racecourse.
(b) Set a trap and capture her.
(c) Tie her down with golden thread.
(d) Distract her with golden apples.

5. What are black and white doing together in the poem that opens Chapter 5?
(a) Rising.
(b) Sinking.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Working.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?

2. What is the afterthought to this third thought, in DuBois' account?

3. What kinds of schools were blacks first given, after the Civil War?

4. What problem does DuBois say hindered the Negro Colleges after the War?

5. What was Ben Butler’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?

(see the answer key)

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