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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 avenue for escape from the grind of debt, according to DuBois?
(a) Save and invest.
(b) Crop rotation.
(c) Go West.
(d) Flee to town.

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

3. How many churches are there for every black family in America, according to DuBois?
(a) 1:250.
(b) 1:60.
(c) 1:175.
(d) 1:125.

4. What does DuBois say we cannot hope for, not for some generations?
(a) Integrated neighborhoods.
(b) Sympathy between black and white.
(c) A black intellectual class.
(d) Black entrepreneurs.

5. How does DuBois characterize the Freedmen’s Bureau’s role in assisting the blacks in the South?
(a) Inconsequential.
(b) One of many.
(c) Central.
(d) Powerless.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Texas affected farming in the Black Belt?

2. What does DuBois say the Negro Problem is a test of?

3. What does DuBois say we must do if we want to know about the color line?

4. What does DuBois say the black church antedates?

5. How does DuBois characterize the son’s relation to the Veil?

(see the answer key)

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