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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the war’s effect on Atlanta?
(a) A shedding and emergence.
(b) A trial by fire.
(c) A rebirth.
(d) An iron baptism.

2. What problem are the black farmers up against, that was not a problem during slavery?
(a) Rising prices for cotton.
(b) Lynching.
(c) Soil exhaustion.
(d) Lack of police.

3. Which was NOT one of the parties DuBois broke Southern society into, after the Civil War?
(a) The Conquerors.
(b) The poor.
(c) The Conquered.
(d) The Negro.

4. Why does DuBois say tenant farmers do not improve their land?
(a) They have no money.
(b) They have no incentive.
(c) They want to undermine their landlords.
(d) They want to destroy it.

5. Where does the image of the Golden Fleece come from?
(a) Greek myth.
(b) African myth.
(c) Roman myth.
(d) American history.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?

2. How frequently did DuBois have to convince the parents about the value of book-learning?

3. How does DuBois characterize the Freedmen’s Bureau’s role in assisting the blacks in the South?

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

5. How many bales of cotton went to London from the Black Belt by 1860?

(see the answer key)

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