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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the war’s effect on Atlanta?
(a) A shedding and emergence.
(b) A rebirth.
(c) A trial by fire.
(d) An iron baptism.

2. When were the slaves emancipated in the U.S.?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1808.

3. What is it that makes the shame in the poem that opens Chapter 6?
(a) The heart bursting from vexation.
(b) Death cutting life short.
(c) The body restraining the soul.
(d) The mind living in imagination.

4. What was at the heart of Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks?
(a) Religious instruction.
(b) Classical education.
(c) Industrial education.
(d) Business training.

5. What was the result of the Revolution of 1876?
(a) The Fourteenth Amendment.
(b) The suppression of black votes.
(c) Armed conflict.
(d) The emancipation of slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?

2. Where did industrial education fit, in the four stages of progress DuBois describes?

3. Who told DuBois of the school where he ended up teaching?

4. Who has come to embody the ideals of American blacks recently, according to DuBois?

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

(see the answer key)

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