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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who made the final word on policy regarding escaped slaves arriving in Union Army lines?
(a) Cameron.
(b) Fremont.
(c) Butler.
(d) Halleck.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What time of his life did DuBois spend teaching in the South?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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