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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 organizations does DuBois say coordinated with the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) More than 50.
(b) More than 400.
(c) More than 200.
(d) More than 500.

2. What are black and white doing together in the poem that opens Chapter 5?
(a) Sinking.
(b) Rising.
(c) Working.
(d) Fighting.

3. What does DuBois invoke when eh calls Atlanta the new Lachesis?
(a) Cutting off commerce.
(b) Preparing cloth.
(c) Measuring men’s lives.
(d) Spinning thread.

4. How many students did DuBois have in his first classroom?
(a) 24.
(b) 12.
(c) 30.
(d) 18.

5. The Black Belt is described as the ______ of the Confederacy.
(a) Egypt.
(b) Blues capital.
(c) Swamp.
(d) Bread basket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?

2. Where does DuBois recall having taught, in Chapter 4?

3. What does DuBois say is the effect the Gospel of Pay has on the Gospel of Work?

4. What most of the hundred hills of Atlanta crowned with, according to DuBois?

5. How has the price of cotton affected the Black Belt?

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