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

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

3. How long ago did this teaching take place, from the moment of DuBois’ writing?
(a) Seventeen years.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Six months.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?

2. What lightened DuBois’ teacher training?

3. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?

4. Who was the founder of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

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

(see the answer key)

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