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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?
(a) Self-assertion.
(b) Submission.
(c) Accommodation.
(d) Evolution.

2. Who does DuBois say does not wince when he sits with him?
(a) His boss.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) His student's father.
(d) His student.

3. What does DuBois say blacks typically see in the area of law and justice?
(a) Profitability.
(b) Opportunity.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Humiliation.

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

5. What advantage do the farmers to rent for fixed money enjoy, according to DuBois?
(a) They get better prices for their crops.
(b) They benefit from their improvements
(c) They can select their crops.
(d) They get lower prices on supplies.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Alexander Crummell born?

2. Who has come to embody the ideals of American blacks recently, according to DuBois?

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

4. What is the afterthought to this third thought, in DuBois' account?

5. Booker T. Washington’s ascendancy is the most remarkable event in American race relations since when, according to DuBois?

(see the answer key)

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