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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the first stream of thought call for, which DuBois describes in Chapter 6?
(a) Wisdom to help the helpless.
(b) Hierarchical gradations of personhood.
(c) Cooperation between men globally.
(d) Power to rule over powerless.

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

5. Who told DuBois of the school where he ended up teaching?
(a) Uncle Bird.
(b) Thenie.
(c) Colonel Wheeler.
(d) Josie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?

2. How many students did DuBois have in his first classroom?

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

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

5. Who does DuBois say does not wince when he sits with him?

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