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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the present moment of DuBois’ writing, what is the state of the society that was built on cotton production in its heyday?
(a) Destroyed.
(b) Prosperous.
(c) Dilapidated.
(d) Industrial.

2. Where has Booker T. Washington been most criticized, in DuBois' account?
(a) From abroad.
(b) From blacks.
(c) From southerners.
(d) From northerners.

3. What does DuBois say is the characteristic trend of his times?
(a) The development of labor-saving technologies.
(b) The vanishing industrial base of the South.
(c) The expansion of capitalism through the globe.
(d) Contact of civilized and primitive people.

4. What does the first stream of thought call for, which DuBois describes in Chapter 6?
(a) Hierarchical gradations of personhood.
(b) Power to rule over powerless.
(c) Cooperation between men globally.
(d) Wisdom to help the helpless.

5. Who told DuBois of the school where he ended up teaching?
(a) Thenie.
(b) Uncle Bird.
(c) Josie.
(d) Colonel Wheeler.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the afterthought to this thought, in DuBois' account?

3. Which of these things did Booker T. Washington NOT ask American Negroes to give up?

4. What does DuBois say you must pass through on the way to the Temple of Knowledge?

5. Where do warriors spring from, in the myth of the Golden Fleece?

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