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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does DuBois say is the Negro’s status as of his writing?
(a) Not free.
(b) Free but not educated.
(c) Employed but not prospering.
(d) Educated but not well employed.

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

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

4. How many students did DuBois have in his first classroom?
(a) 18.
(b) 12.
(c) 30.
(d) 24.

5. What did the fifteenth amendment give blacks in America?
(a) Free education.
(b) Personhood.
(c) Full representation.
(d) The vote.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?

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

4. What period does DuBois’ history cover, in Chapter 2?

5. What ideal did Booker T. Washington believe in, that allowed him to lead?

(see the answer key)

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