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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What consolation does DuBois imagine, for the likelihood that his son would have lived in a racist society, if he lived?
(a) The times might have changed by the time he matured.
(b) He might always have returned to Africa.
(c) He might have become the leader who would change things.
(d) He might have borne it lighter than he himself had.

2. What kind of work is DuBois doing, by portraying the inhabitants of Dougherty County?
(a) Portraiture
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Zoology.
(d) History.

3. What ideal did Booker T. Washington believe in, that allowed him to lead?
(a) Material prosperity.
(b) Political representation.
(c) Intellectual equality.
(d) Religious transcendence.

4. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) Children of each state.
(b) Workers in the American business.
(c) Wards of the U.S. government.
(d) Students of democracy.

5. Who has come to embody the ideals of American blacks recently, according to DuBois?
(a) Minstrels.
(b) The old slave-owners.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Wealthy people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first change in the Africans’ lives, according to DuBois?

2. When does DuBois say universal suffrage a popular topic in the South?

3. What groups almost never live close to each other?

4. How does DuBois characterize the process of land valuation in the Black Belt?

5. Who does DuBois say does not wince when he sits with him?

(see the answer key)

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