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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does DuBois say should be the purpose of all striving in the twentieth century?
(a) That the meek inherit the earth.
(b) That the good, beautiful and true triumph.
(c) That the fittest survive.
(d) That justice reign on earth.

2. What kind of pall hangs over the land of West Dougherty County?
(a) Despair.
(b) Debt.
(c) Absentee landlords.
(d) Violence.

3. What is the problem the poet complains of in the poem that opens Chapter 9?
(a) High rents.
(b) Crowding.
(c) Bad health.
(d) Bad government.

4. What does DuBois say his wife had had to do, to produce their son?
(a) Allow herself to be enslaved.
(b) Sleep with death.
(c) Be reborn.
(d) Liberate herself.

5. What are black and white doing together in the poem that opens Chapter 5?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Rising.
(c) Working.
(d) Sinking.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the ratio of blacks to whites in the Black Belt?

3. What advantage do the farmers to rent for fixed money enjoy, according to DuBois?

4. Why does DuBois say tenant farmers do not improve their land?

5. How does DuBois characterize the revival preacher?

(see the answer key)

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