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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the arrival of freedom for blacks in America?
(a) An anti-climactic realization.
(b) A terrible waking.
(c) A frightful vision.
(d) A fearful dream.

2. How many students did DuBois have in his first classroom?
(a) 12.
(b) 30.
(c) 18.
(d) 24.

3. What claim does DuBois make for Negro music?
(a) He calls it the most original expression of human life to come from America.
(b) He says that it is the seed of something unique, anticipating blues and jazz.
(c) He says that he has never had a more profound experience than to hear it.
(d) He says that it is an eternal sound, older than anything in America.

4. How frequently did DuBois have to convince the parents about the value of book-learning?
(a) Daily.
(b) Rarely.
(c) Weekly.
(d) Monthly.

5. What did the fifteenth amendment give blacks in America?
(a) Full representation.
(b) The vote.
(c) Free education.
(d) Personhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say his wife had had to do, to produce their son?

2. Who made the final word on policy regarding escaped slaves arriving in Union Army lines?

3. When did ‘the fire of African freedom’ cease to burn in American’ slaves’ veins, according to DuBois?

4. What does DuBois say is the keynote of the Black Belt?

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

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