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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does DuBois say the church plays in black culture?
(a) Intellectual center.
(b) Center of corruption.
(c) Social center.
(d) Financial center.

2. How does DuBois characterize the process of land valuation in the Black Belt?
(a) Mathematical.
(b) Idiosyncratic.
(c) Standardized.
(d) Scientific.

3. What kind of explanation does DuBois endeavor to provide, of the color line in the South?
(a) An account of the guilty parties.
(b) A plain, unvarnished tale.
(c) A theoretical model.
(d) A scientific account.

4. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?
(a) Justice.
(b) Revenge.
(c) God.
(d) Rest.

5. Where does DuBois say leadership for blacks will have to come from?
(a) The blacks themselves.
(b) Northerners.
(c) The old Southern aristocracy.
(d) Foreigners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dominant crop in the land DuBois describes?

2. How many organizations does DuBois say coordinated with the Freedmen’s Bureau?

3. Who was the founder of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

4. Where did DuBois says that he learned that he was black?

5. What ideal did Booker T. Washington believe in, that allowed him to lead?

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