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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Booker T. Washington’s ascendancy is the most remarkable event in American race relations since when, according to DuBois?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1860.

2. How frequently did DuBois have to convince the parents about the value of book-learning?
(a) Weekly.
(b) Monthly.
(c) Rarely.
(d) Daily.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the fifteenth amendment give blacks in America?

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

3. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?

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

5. Who told DuBois of the school where he ended up teaching?

(see the answer key)

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