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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the afterthought to this third thought, in DuBois' account?
(a) Doubts about whites’ power.
(b) Despair over human nature.
(c) Dread of confrontation.
(d) Doubt about blacks’ worth.

2. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?
(a) The price of cotton.
(b) America’s foreign policy.
(c) The right of blacks to vote.
(d) The Negro Problem.

3. What does DuBois say is the relationship between the black church and the world at large?
(a) The church is a microcosm.
(b) The church is a model.
(c) the church is a refuge.
(d) The church is an alternative.

4. What was Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?
(a) Accommodation.
(b) Submission.
(c) Self-assertion.
(d) Evolution.

5. What problem are the black farmers up against, that was not a problem during slavery?
(a) Lack of police.
(b) Soil exhaustion.
(c) Rising prices for cotton.
(d) Lynching.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What news did DuBois get, at the beginning of the chapter?

3. What does DuBois say the nineteenth century is the first century of?

4. What is the chief form of relations between blacks and whites in the South, according to DuBois?

5. What advantage do the farmers to rent for fixed money enjoy, according to DuBois?

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