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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the central problem DuBois addresses?
(a) Education.
(b) Religion.
(c) Security.
(d) Commerce.

2. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?
(a) Elation.
(b) Proud.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Safe.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ben fight with Sam Carlon?

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

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

4. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?

5. How does DuBois characterize the Burkes’ home, when he returns to their area?

(see the answer key)

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