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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
(a) Wait seven generations for full equality.
(b) Accept your submission.
(c) Pay us for freeing you.
(d) Rise to your potential.

2. What does DuBois say is the Negro’s status as of his writing?
(a) Not free.
(b) Educated but not well employed.
(c) Employed but not prospering.
(d) Free but not educated.

3. Who told DuBois of the school where he ended up teaching?
(a) Thenie.
(b) Colonel Wheeler.
(c) Uncle Bird.
(d) Josie.

4. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?
(a) Safe.
(b) Elation.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Proud.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?

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

3. How long ago did this teaching take place, from the moment of DuBois’ writing?

4. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?

5. What does DuBois say is the problem of the twentieth century?

(see the answer key)

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