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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?
(a) She was living in town.
(b) She had died.
(c) She had moved to the city.
(d) She was still in the same house.

3. What ideal does DuBois say has vanished?
(a) The Southern gentleman.
(b) The northern businessman.
(c) The gentleman farmer.
(d) The noble servant.

4. What is the goal of relief efforts for blacks, in DuBois' account?
(a) Economic independence.
(b) Legal system reforms.
(c) Repatriation to Africa.
(d) Individual self-realization.

5. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
(a) Pay us for freeing you.
(b) Rise to your potential.
(c) Accept your submission.
(d) Wait seven generations for full equality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Booker T. Washington been most criticized, in DuBois' account?

2. What most of the hundred hills of Atlanta crowned with, according to DuBois?

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

4. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?

5. What was Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?

(see the answer key)

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