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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 Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?
(a) Self-assertion.
(b) Accommodation.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Submission.

2. Why does DuBois say blacks in the South abandoned politics?
(a) There were so many scandals it became disreputable.
(b) Without a fair judiciary, politics were senseless.
(c) There was too much violent opposition.
(d) The whites stole from them regardless of politics.

3. How does DuBois characterize the son’s relation to the Veil?
(a) He was born behind it.
(b) He was born free of it.
(c) He was born beyond it.
(d) He was born within it.

4. Who was the founder of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) Cameron.
(b) Eaton.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Pierce.

5. Booker T. Washington’s ascendancy is the most remarkable event in American race relations since when, according to DuBois?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1808.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1865.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?

2. What effect does DuBois say the sorrow songs had on him, the first time he heard one?

3. The Black Belt is described as the ______ of the Confederacy.

4. What was given up in the Atlanta Compromise?

5. What is the problem the poet complains of in the poem that opens Chapter 9?

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