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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of pall hangs over the land of West Dougherty County?
(a) Debt.
(b) Absentee landlords.
(c) Despair.
(d) Violence.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did Ben fight with Sam Carlon?

4. What state is the Black Belt in?

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

(see the answer key)

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