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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that makes the shame in the poem that opens Chapter 6?
(a) The heart bursting from vexation.
(b) Death cutting life short.
(c) The mind living in imagination.
(d) The body restraining the soul.

2. Which was NOT one of the parties DuBois broke Southern society into, after the Civil War?
(a) The Conquerors.
(b) The Conquered.
(c) The poor.
(d) The Negro.

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

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

5. What explanation does DuBois make for the laziness of the blacks he meets?
(a) Temperament.
(b) Social influence.
(c) Racial inferiority.
(d) Social injustice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was at the heart of Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks?

3. What kind of pall hangs over the land of West Dougherty County?

4. What does DuBois say is the characteristic trend of his times?

5. What does DuBois say we cannot hope for, not for some generations?

(see the answer key)

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