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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ben Butler’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?
(a) Imprison them.
(b) Put them to work.
(c) Send them back to their plantations.
(d) Educate them.

2. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?
(a) Rest.
(b) God.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Justice.

3. Why did Ben fight with Sam Carlon?
(a) Carlon had not paid him for his work.
(b) Carlon had tried to seduce his sister.
(c) Carlon had insulted him.
(d) Carlon had stolen from him.

4. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?
(a) Send them north.
(b) Educate them.
(c) Send them home.
(d) Give them work.

5. What was the result of the Revolution of 1876?
(a) Armed conflict.
(b) The emancipation of slaves.
(c) The suppression of black votes.
(d) The Fourteenth Amendment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What ideal did Booker T. Washington believe in, that allowed him to lead?

3. To whom does the burden of the Negro Problem belong, in DuBois' account?

4. Which was NOT one of the parties DuBois broke Southern society into, after the Civil War?

5. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?

(see the answer key)

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