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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did DuBois’ son live before dying?
(a) 14 months.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 22 months.
(d) 26 months.

2. What does DuBois say he shared with the townspeople where he was teaching?
(a) A friendly antagonism.
(b) A common consciousness.
(c) A deep hostility.
(d) A similar problem.

3. How does DuBois characterize the Burkes’ home, when he returns to their area?
(a) Rough but prosperous.
(b) Shoddy and failing.
(c) Same as it was.
(d) Much improved.

4. How many bales of cotton went to London from the Black Belt by 1860?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 100,000.

5. What does DuBois propose to measure a bushel of wheat against, at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Heartfuls of sorrow.
(b) Lynched black men.
(c) Black blood.
(d) Black women’s tears.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say his wife had had to do, to produce their son?

2. Where does DuBois recall having taught, in Chapter 4?

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

4. What does DuBois say is the world’s most piteous thing?

5. In the present moment of DuBois’ writing, what is the state of the society that was built on cotton production in its heyday?

(see the answer key)

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