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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the slave kindergarten that was raised in West Dougherty County?
(a) The most fractious
(b) The richest ever.
(c) The most intractable.
(d) The most motivated.

2. What news did DuBois get, at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) That his son had been born.
(b) That his wife had died.
(c) That his son was sick.
(d) That his son had died.

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

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

5. What traits does DuBois say are associated with the plantation Negro?
(a) Joyful abandon.
(b) Shiftlessness.
(c) Scheming wiliness.
(d) Sulky laziness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How frequently did DuBois have to convince the parents about the value of book-learning?

3. What state is the Black Belt in?

4. How is Chapter 11, On the Passing of the Firstborn, different from the other chapters?

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

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