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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?
(a) Give them work.
(b) Send them home.
(c) Educate them.
(d) Send them north.

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

3. What was Fremont’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?
(a) Put them to work.
(b) Send them home.
(c) Relocate them.
(d) Free them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many organizations does DuBois say coordinated with the Freedmen’s Bureau?

3. What did the fifteenth amendment give blacks in America?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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