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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time of his life did DuBois spend teaching in the South?
(a) The end of his youth.
(b) The first ten years of his maturity.
(c) Ten years after youth.
(d) The first ten years of his old age.

2. What does DuBois say is the tragedy of the age?
(a) That men know so little of men.
(b) That violence is tolerated and approved.
(c) That wickedness is rewarded with profit.
(d) That virtue is typically powerless.

3. What explanation does DuBois make for the laziness of the blacks he meets?
(a) Social influence.
(b) Racial inferiority.
(c) Social injustice.
(d) Temperament.

4. How does DuBois compare the plantation houses in Dougherty County with plantation houses in Virginia, in the time of slavery?
(a) More aristocratic.
(b) More elaborate.
(c) More practical.
(d) Less imposing.

5. What does DuBois say you must pass through on the way to the Temple of Knowledge?
(a) The Sea of Doubt.
(b) The Gates of Toil.
(c) The Door of Self-knowledge.
(d) The Valley of the Shadow of Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the outcome of John’s school in his hometown?

2. What does DuBois say his first feeling for his son was?

3. How many students did DuBois have in his first classroom?

4. What conclusion does DuBois come to, regarding color-prejudice?

5. In the present moment of DuBois’ writing, what is the state of the society that was built on cotton production in its heyday?

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