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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?
(a) He says that it is the true American music.
(b) He says that it is an African rhythm in American life.
(c) He says that it is more European than American.
(d) He says that it is just beginning to emerge.

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

4. How does DuBois characterize the Freedmen’s Bureau’s role in assisting the blacks in the South?
(a) Powerless.
(b) Inconsequential.
(c) Central.
(d) One of many.

5. How does DuBois characterize the arrival of freedom for blacks in America?
(a) A frightful vision.
(b) A fearful dream.
(c) A terrible waking.
(d) An anti-climactic realization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say is the Negro’s status as of his writing?

2. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?

3. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?

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

5. In what realm does DuBois want to work alongside whites?

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