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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does DuBois say is the world’s most piteous thing?
(a) An empty cradle.
(b) A dead child.
(c) A childless mother.
(d) A childless father.

2. What lightened DuBois’ teacher training?
(a) Concerts.
(b) Religious services.
(c) Picnics.
(d) Marriage.

3. What consolation does DuBois imagine, for the likelihood that his son would have lived in a racist society, if he lived?
(a) He might always have returned to Africa.
(b) He might have borne it lighter than he himself had.
(c) He might have become the leader who would change things.
(d) The times might have changed by the time he matured.

4. How many students did DuBois have in his first classroom?
(a) 24.
(b) 30.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

5. How frequently did DuBois have to convince the parents about the value of book-learning?
(a) Monthly.
(b) Daily.
(c) Rarely.
(d) Weekly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of his life did DuBois spend teaching in the South?

2. What does DuBois say the land of the Black Belt is full of?

3. Who did DuBois enjoy staying with the best?

4. The Black Belt is described as the ______ of the Confederacy.

5. What does DuBois propose to measure a bushel of wheat against, at the end of Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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