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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the goal of relief efforts for blacks, in DuBois' account?
(a) Economic independence.
(b) Individual self-realization.
(c) Legal system reforms.
(d) Repatriation to Africa.

2. What does the person who wants to be free have to do, according to the poem that opens chapter 3?
(a) Withdraw his fist.
(b) Strike a blow.
(c) Stop the fight.
(d) Receive a blow.

3. What was gained in the Atlanta Compromise?
(a) Economic training.
(b) The franchise.
(c) 40 acres and a mule for each former slave.
(d) Territory.

4. What does DuBois say the Negro Problem is a test of?
(a) American bureaucracy.
(b) American ideals.
(c) American cities.
(d) American churches.

5. How frequently did DuBois have to convince the parents about the value of book-learning?
(a) Monthly.
(b) Daily.
(c) Rarely.
(d) Weekly.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who told DuBois of the school where he ended up teaching?

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

(see the answer key)

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