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

2. What was Ben Butler’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?
(a) Send them back to their plantations.
(b) Put them to work.
(c) Educate them.
(d) Imprison them.

3. What was Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?
(a) Accommodation.
(b) Self-assertion.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Submission.

4. 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.

5. What was gained in the Atlanta Compromise?
(a) Economic training.
(b) The franchise.
(c) Territory.
(d) 40 acres and a mule for each former slave.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of these things did Booker T. Washington NOT ask American Negroes to give up?

3. Booker T. Washington’s ascendancy is the most remarkable event in American race relations since when, according to DuBois?

4. How does DuBois characterize Hippomenes?

5. What does DuBois want to teach a thinking man to do?

(see the answer key)

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