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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ideal does DuBois say has vanished?
(a) The gentleman farmer.
(b) The Southern gentleman.
(c) The northern businessman.
(d) The noble servant.

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

3. What does Hippomenes do to win the race and marry Atalanta?
(a) Divert the racecourse.
(b) Set a trap and capture her.
(c) Distract her with golden apples.
(d) Tie her down with golden thread.

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

5. What was Fremont’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?
(a) Free them.
(b) Send them home.
(c) Relocate them.
(d) Put them to work.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes conclude?

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

3. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?

4. What ideal did Booker T. Washington believe in, that allowed him to lead?

5. What problem does DuBois say hindered the Negro Colleges after the War?

(see the answer key)

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