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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many blacks is W. E. B. DuBois accounting for in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 1,300.

2. How is Chapter 11, On the Passing of the Firstborn, different from the other chapters?
(a) It is much more reassuring.
(b) It is much more bitter.
(c) It is much more personal.
(d) It is much more guarded.

3. What aspect of his son did DuBois consider an evil omen?
(a) Blue eyes.
(b) Gold-tinted hair.
(c) Six fingers.
(d) A cough.

4. What does DuBois say you must pass through on the way to the Temple of Knowledge?
(a) The Valley of the Shadow of Death.
(b) The Sea of Doubt.
(c) The Door of Self-knowledge.
(d) The Gates of Toil.

5. How has Texas affected farming in the Black Belt?
(a) It has lowered the price of cotton.
(b) It has taken many of the farm hands.
(c) It has raised the cost of cotton production.
(d) It has flooded the market with cheap labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the burden of the Negro Problem belong, in DuBois' account?

2. What does DuBois propose as the solution to race prejudice?

3. Who has come to embody the ideals of American blacks recently, according to DuBois?

4. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?

5. How many bales of cotton went to London from the Black Belt by 1860?

(see the answer key)

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