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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: "W. E. B. Du Bois," Chapters 27-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did General Lee's army surrender, ending the Civil War?
(a) January 31, 1865.
(b) January 1, 1863.
(c) April 9, 1865.
(d) July 21, 1861.

2. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?
(a) A river.
(b) A painting.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) A slave ship.

3. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?
(a) 60%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 40%.

4. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) June 25, 1890.
(b) February 23, 1868.
(c) January 1, 1863.
(d) April 15, 1861.

5. According to the author in Chapter 7, who became associated to associating "lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand and ... darkness and Blackness and ignorance, on the other" (81)?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Morgan Godwyn.
(d) Carl Linnaeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Mis-Education of the Negro?

2. Who did W. E. B. Du Bois offer as a model for Black leadership?

3. For what publication was Ephraim W. Allen editor?

4. When was the New Deal enacted?

5. Where did W. E. B. Du Bois attend college?

(see the answer key)

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