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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What period does DuBois’ history cover, in Chapter 2?
(a) 1860 to 1890.
(b) 1890 to the present.
(c) 1861 to 1872.
(d) 1808 to 1860.

2. In what realm does DuBois want to work alongside whites?
(a) The international stage.
(b) The free market.
(c) The public sphere.
(d) The kingdom of culture.

3. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
(a) Pay us for freeing you.
(b) Rise to your potential.
(c) Accept your submission.
(d) Wait seven generations for full equality.

4. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?
(a) He says that life does not know him.
(b) He says that he is invisible.
(c) He says that he is superfluous.
(d) He says that he lives within the Veil.

5. How many blacks is W. E. B. DuBois accounting for in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 1,300.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the founder of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

2. Which was NOT one of the parties DuBois broke Southern society into, after the Civil War?

3. When were the slaves emancipated in the U.S.?

4. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?

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

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