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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of schools were blacks first given, after the Civil War?
(a) Universities.
(b) Normal schools.
(c) Country schools.
(d) Army schools.

2. What is it that makes the shame in the poem that opens Chapter 6?
(a) Death cutting life short.
(b) The body restraining the soul.
(c) The mind living in imagination.
(d) The heart bursting from vexation.

3. How does DuBois characterize the slave kindergarten that was raised in West Dougherty County?
(a) The most fractious
(b) The most intractable.
(c) The richest ever.
(d) The most motivated.

4. What does DuBois propose as the solution to race prejudice?
(a) Education.
(b) Prosperity.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) Regulation.

5. What ideal does DuBois say has vanished?
(a) The northern businessman.
(b) The gentleman farmer.
(c) The Southern gentleman.
(d) The noble servant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take John to come home?

2. Where has Booker T. Washington been most criticized, in DuBois' account?

3. What does DuBois want to teach a thinking man to do?

4. What state is the Black Belt in?

5. How does DuBois say the Africans placed slavery within their spiritual schema?

(see the answer key)

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