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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What explanation does DuBois make for the laziness of the blacks he meets?
(a) Racial inferiority.
(b) Social injustice.
(c) Temperament.
(d) Social influence.

2. What Indian tribe’s land is Atlanta in?
(a) Cherokee
(b) Chicasaw.
(c) Creek.
(d) Cree.

3. Where did industrial education fit, in the four stages of progress DuBois describes?
(a) Last.
(b) Third, after normal schools but before universities.
(c) Second, after university education.
(d) First.

4. What kind of explanation does DuBois endeavor to provide, of the color line in the South?
(a) An account of the guilty parties.
(b) A plain, unvarnished tale.
(c) A scientific account.
(d) A theoretical model.

5. How does DuBois characterize the music blacks make at a revival?
(a) Plaintive
(b) Invigorating.
(c) Infectious.
(d) Exuberant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does DuBois say enjoyed the heyday when cotton production expanded in West Dougherty County?

2. What does DuBois say is the tragedy of the age?

3. What aspect of his son did DuBois consider an evil omen?

4. What does DuBois say he shared with the townspeople where he was teaching?

5. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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