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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the revival preacher?
(a) The most unique figure in American culture.
(b) The center and life of a community.
(c) A charlatan with great skills.
(d) A healer who is also a politician.

2. What is the problem the poet complains of in the poem that opens Chapter 9?
(a) Crowding.
(b) High rents.
(c) Bad government.
(d) Bad health.

3. What was the first change in the Africans’ lives, according to DuBois?
(a) Seeing the murder of their parents by whites.
(b) Work on the cotton plantation.
(c) Transport on the slave ship.
(d) Being born into slavery.

4. Where does the image of the Golden Fleece come from?
(a) African myth.
(b) Greek myth.
(c) American history.
(d) Roman myth.

5. What does DuBois say is the end that meat nourishes?
(a) Political power.
(b) Religious feeling.
(c) Self-realization.
(d) Wealth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does DuBois characterize the war’s effect on Atlanta?

3. What does DuBois say he shared with the townspeople where he was teaching?

4. What does the first stream of thought call for, which DuBois describes in Chapter 6?

5. Why does DuBois say tenant farmers do not improve their land?

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