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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of cabin does DuBois say is the exception the rule?
(a) The habitable.
(b) The scrupulously neat.
(c) The ramshackle.
(d) The filthy.

3. 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.

4. What does DuBois say is the keynote of the Black Belt?
(a) Bitterness.
(b) Debt.
(c) Training.
(d) Hope.

5. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?
(a) She was still in the same house.
(b) She had died.
(c) She was living in town.
(d) She had moved to the city.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does DuBois characterize progress.

4. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?

5. How does DuBois compare the plantation houses in Dougherty County with plantation houses in Virginia, in the time of slavery?

(see the answer key)

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