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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does DuBois recall having taught, in Chapter 4?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Michigan.

2. What conclusion does DuBois come to, regarding color-prejudice?
(a) It is the product of conditions.
(b) It is a relic of a previous time.
(c) It is a decision men make.
(d) It is part of human nature.

3. What was gained in the Atlanta Compromise?
(a) Territory.
(b) 40 acres and a mule for each former slave.
(c) Economic training.
(d) The franchise.

4. How does DuBois characterize the arrival of freedom for blacks in America?
(a) A fearful dream.
(b) An anti-climactic realization.
(c) A terrible waking.
(d) A frightful vision.

5. What does DuBois say people have valued too highly, in the most recent period of Reconstruction?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Politics.
(d) Liberty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?

3. What kinds of schools were blacks first given, after the Civil War?

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

5. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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