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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?
(a) Send them north.
(b) Send them home.
(c) Give them work.
(d) Educate them.

2. What does DuBois propose to measure a bushel of wheat against, at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Lynched black men.
(b) Heartfuls of sorrow.
(c) Black women’s tears.
(d) Black blood.

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

4. What does DuBois say should be the purpose of all striving in the twentieth century?
(a) That the good, beautiful and true triumph.
(b) That the meek inherit the earth.
(c) That the fittest survive.
(d) That justice reign on earth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which church refused to admit Alexander Crummell?

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

3. In what way does DuBois say his son was fortunate?

4. How does DuBois characterize the Burkes’ home, when he returns to their area?

5. What aspect of his son did DuBois consider an evil omen?

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