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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the arrival of freedom for blacks in America?
(a) An anti-climactic realization.
(b) A frightful vision.
(c) A terrible waking.
(d) A fearful dream.

2. What was Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?
(a) Self-assertion.
(b) Submission.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Accommodation.

3. How many blacks is W. E. B. DuBois accounting for in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 1,300.

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

5. What was given up in the Atlanta Compromise?
(a) The vote.
(b) Money.
(c) Legal rights.
(d) Territory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?

2. What does DuBois say is the Negro’s status as of his writing?

3. What does DuBois say the Negro Problem is a test of?

4. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?

5. What is the central problem DuBois addresses?

(see the answer key)

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