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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does DuBois say the Negro Problem is a test of?
(a) American churches.
(b) American cities.
(c) American bureaucracy.
(d) American ideals.

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

3. What does DuBois say is the problem of the twentieth century?
(a) The development of markets.
(b) The relations of races.
(c) The expansion of America.
(d) The dangers from Europe.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did DuBois says that he learned that he was black?

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

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

5. How many blacks is W. E. B. DuBois accounting for in The Souls of Black Folk?

(see the answer key)

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