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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What period does DuBois’ history cover, in Chapter 2?
(a) 1860 to 1890.
(b) 1861 to 1872.
(c) 1808 to 1860.
(d) 1890 to the present.

2. What does DuBois say should be the purpose of all striving in the twentieth century?
(a) That justice reign on earth.
(b) That the good, beautiful and true triumph.
(c) That the meek inherit the earth.
(d) That the fittest survive.

3. Why does DuBois say tenant farmers do not improve their land?
(a) They want to destroy it.
(b) They have no money.
(c) They have no incentive.
(d) They want to undermine their landlords.

4. What kind of explanation does DuBois endeavor to provide, of the color line in the South?
(a) An account of the guilty parties.
(b) A plain, unvarnished tale.
(c) A theoretical model.
(d) A scientific account.

5. How does DuBois characterize the slave kindergarten that was raised in West Dougherty County?
(a) The most motivated.
(b) The most intractable.
(c) The most fractious
(d) The richest ever.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the image of the Golden Fleece come from?

2. What is the goal of relief efforts for blacks, in DuBois' account?

3. What most of the hundred hills of Atlanta crowned with, according to DuBois?

4. What does the person who wants to be free have to do, according to the poem that opens chapter 3?

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

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