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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What lightened DuBois’ teacher training?
(a) Concerts.
(b) Religious services.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Picnics.

3. In what way does DuBois say blacks are torn?
(a) Between being black and being American.
(b) Between being loyal to the community or loyal to the nation.
(c) Between being loyal to Africa or loyal to America.
(d) Between being content with themselves, or outraged for their race.

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

5. What does DuBois propose to measure a bushel of wheat against, at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Black blood.
(b) Black women’s tears.
(c) Heartfuls of sorrow.
(d) Lynched black men.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the founder of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

3. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?

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

5. When did ‘the fire of African freedom’ cease to burn in American’ slaves’ veins, according to DuBois?

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