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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the dominant crop in the land DuBois describes?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Corn.
(d) Cotton.

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

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

5. What does Hippomenes do to win the race and marry Atalanta?
(a) Distract her with golden apples.
(b) Tie her down with golden thread.
(c) Divert the racecourse.
(d) Set a trap and capture her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does DuBois say is the keynote of the Black Belt?

3. What does DuBois propose to measure a bushel of wheat against, at the end of Chapter 4?

4. What does DuBois say people have valued too highly, in the most recent period of Reconstruction?

5. How does DuBois characterize the Burkes’ home, when he returns to their area?

(see the answer key)

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