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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does DuBois say blacks are torn?
(a) Between being black and being American.
(b) Between being content with themselves, or outraged for their race.
(c) Between being loyal to the community or loyal to the nation.
(d) Between being loyal to Africa or loyal to America.

2. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) Children of each state.
(b) Workers in the American business.
(c) Wards of the U.S. government.
(d) Students of democracy.

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

4. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?
(a) On the scaffold.
(b) In the sewer.
(c) On the throne.
(d) In the library.

5. What did the fifteenth amendment give blacks in America?
(a) Full representation.
(b) The vote.
(c) Personhood.
(d) Free education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made the final word on policy regarding escaped slaves arriving in Union Army lines?

2. What does DuBois say the Negro Problem is a test of?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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