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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the arrival of freedom for blacks in America?
(a) An anti-climactic realization.
(b) A fearful dream.
(c) A frightful vision.
(d) A terrible waking.

2. 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.

3. What kind of cabin does DuBois say is the exception the rule?
(a) The scrupulously neat.
(b) The habitable.
(c) The ramshackle.
(d) The filthy.

4. What groups almost never live close to each other?
(a) The black and white tradesmen.
(b) The best of blacks and whites.
(c) The worst of blacks and whites.
(d) The poor black and white farmers.

5. Which is NOT one of the components of the Southern Negro Revival?
(a) The choir.
(b) The music.
(c) The preacher.
(d) The frenzy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say people have valued too highly, in the most recent period of Reconstruction?

2. To whom does the burden of the Negro Problem belong, in DuBois' account?

3. How frequently did DuBois have to convince the parents about the value of book-learning?

4. What does DuBois say you must pass through on the way to the Temple of Knowledge?

5. What advantage do the farmers to rent for fixed money enjoy, according to DuBois?

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