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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does DuBois say his first feeling for his son was?
(a) He was afraid for him.
(b) He was terrified by him.
(c) He loved him immediately.
(d) He did not love him.

5. What explanation does DuBois make for the laziness of the blacks he meets?
(a) Racial inferiority.
(b) Temperament.
(c) Social influence.
(d) Social injustice.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?

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

5. What consolation does DuBois imagine, for the likelihood that his son would have lived in a racist society, if he lived?

(see the answer key)

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