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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 ago did this teaching take place, from the moment of DuBois’ writing?
(a) Six months.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Seventeen years.
(d) Four years.

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

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

4. What does DuBois say his wife had had to do, to produce their son?
(a) Sleep with death.
(b) Liberate herself.
(c) Allow herself to be enslaved.
(d) Be reborn.

5. What problem are the black farmers up against, that was not a problem during slavery?
(a) Soil exhaustion.
(b) Lynching.
(c) Lack of police.
(d) Rising prices for cotton.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way does DuBois say his son was fortunate?

3. What news did DuBois get, at the beginning of the chapter?

4. What kind of pall hangs over the land of West Dougherty County?

5. How many students did DuBois have in his first classroom?

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