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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are black and white doing together in the poem that opens Chapter 5?
(a) Sinking.
(b) Rising.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Working.

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

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

4. How does DuBois characterize the Freedmen’s Bureau’s role in assisting the blacks in the South?
(a) Powerless.
(b) Central.
(c) One of many.
(d) Inconsequential.

5. Who was the founder of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Cameron.
(c) Eaton.
(d) Pierce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did DuBois enjoy staying with the best?

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

3. What is the goal of relief efforts for blacks, in DuBois' account?

4. How does DuBois characterize the arrival of freedom for blacks in America?

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

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