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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) 100,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 50,000.

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

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

4. How does DuBois characterize the son’s relation to the Veil?
(a) He was born beyond it.
(b) He was born within it.
(c) He was born behind it.
(d) He was born free of it.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did DuBois enjoy staying with the best?

3. What does DuBois say he shared with the townspeople where he was teaching?

4. Why did Ben fight with Sam Carlon?

5. What has the poet not kept, in the poem that starts Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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