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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the Burkes’ home, when he returns to their area?
(a) Rough but prosperous.
(b) Much improved.
(c) Shoddy and failing.
(d) Same as it was.

2. What does DuBois want to teach a thinking man to do?
(a) Prosper.
(b) Practice an art.
(c) Work.
(d) Think.

3. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?
(a) On the throne.
(b) In the library.
(c) In the sewer.
(d) On the scaffold.

4. What ideal did Booker T. Washington believe in, that allowed him to lead?
(a) Religious transcendence.
(b) Political representation.
(c) Intellectual equality.
(d) Material prosperity.

5. What does DuBois say is the effect the Gospel of Pay has on the Gospel of Work?
(a) It ennobles it.
(b) It distracts from it.
(c) It uplifts it.
(d) It befouls it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does DuBois say people have valued too highly, in the most recent period of Reconstruction?

3. To whom does the burden of the Negro Problem belong, in DuBois' account?

4. What ideal does DuBois say has vanished?

5. What was DuBois’ solution to feeling isolated by his race?

(see the answer key)

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