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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?
(a) The price of cotton.
(b) The Negro Problem.
(c) America’s foreign policy.
(d) The right of blacks to vote.

2. What time of his life did DuBois spend teaching in the South?
(a) Ten years after youth.
(b) The first ten years of his maturity.
(c) The end of his youth.
(d) The first ten years of his old age.

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

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

5. What does DuBois propose to measure a bushel of wheat against, at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Black blood.
(b) Black women’s tears.
(c) Heartfuls of sorrow.
(d) Lynched black men.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does DuBois say blacks are torn?

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

3. What lightened DuBois’ teacher training?

4. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?

5. What is the goal of relief efforts for blacks, in DuBois' account?

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