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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?
(a) Rest.
(b) Justice.
(c) God.
(d) Revenge.

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

3. How does DuBois characterize the process of land valuation in the Black Belt?
(a) Standardized.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Idiosyncratic.
(d) Mathematical.

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

5. What is the chief form of relations between blacks and whites in the South, according to DuBois?
(a) Politics.
(b) Physical proximity.
(c) Religion.
(d) Economics.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the burden of the Negro Problem belong, in DuBois' account?

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

3. Where is DuBois originally from?

4. How does DuBois characterize Hippomenes?

5. How does DuBois say the Africans placed slavery within their spiritual schema?

(see the answer key)

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