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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?
(a) On the throne.
(b) On the scaffold.
(c) In the library.
(d) In the sewer.

2. What is the afterthought to this second thought, in DuBois' account?
(a) That whites might become animals.
(b) That whites might destroy the blacks.
(c) That blacks might become men.
(d) That blacks might abandon the country.

3. How does the myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes conclude?
(a) With profanation.
(b) With consecration.
(c) With sanctification.
(d) With desertion.

4. Why did Ben fight with Sam Carlon?
(a) Carlon had insulted him.
(b) Carlon had tried to seduce his sister.
(c) Carlon had not paid him for his work.
(d) Carlon had stolen from him.

5. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?
(a) She had died.
(b) She was living in town.
(c) She had moved to the city.
(d) She was still in the same house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?

2. What does DuBois propose to measure a bushel of wheat against, at the end of Chapter 4?

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

4. In what realm does DuBois want to work alongside whites?

5. How does DuBois characterize the Freedmen’s Bureau’s role in assisting the blacks in the South?

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