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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is NOT one of the components of the Southern Negro Revival?
(a) The choir.
(b) The preacher.
(c) The music.
(d) The frenzy.

2. When was Alexander Crummell born?
(a) The Atlanta Compromise.
(b) The Great Compromise.
(c) The signing of the Constitution.
(d) The Missouri Compromise.

3. What was the first change in the Africans’ lives, according to DuBois?
(a) Being born into slavery.
(b) Seeing the murder of their parents by whites.
(c) Transport on the slave ship.
(d) Work on the cotton plantation.

4. How does DuBois characterize the slave kindergarten that was raised in West Dougherty County?
(a) The most intractable.
(b) The richest ever.
(c) The most fractious
(d) The most motivated.

5. What does DuBois say might change how the Veil sits on the American blacks?
(a) Someone could turn it into a funeral shroud for racism.
(b) It might dissolve.
(c) Someone might one day lift it.
(d) It might be torn away.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does DuBois say people have valued too highly, in the most recent period of Reconstruction?

3. What consolation does DuBois imagine, for the likelihood that his son would have lived in a racist society, if he lived?

4. What conclusion does DuBois come to, regarding color-prejudice?

5. What time of his life did DuBois spend teaching in the South?

(see the answer key)

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