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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What has black religion contributed to, in DuBois' account?
(a) American political life.
(b) American middle-class religion.
(c) Poor white religion.
(d) American entertainment.

3. What does DuBois say his first feeling for his son was?
(a) He was afraid for him.
(b) He did not love him.
(c) He loved him immediately.
(d) He was terrified by him.

4. What does DuBois say he shared with the townspeople where he was teaching?
(a) A friendly antagonism.
(b) A deep hostility.
(c) A similar problem.
(d) A common consciousness.

5. Where did industrial education fit, in the four stages of progress DuBois describes?
(a) Last.
(b) First.
(c) Third, after normal schools but before universities.
(d) Second, after university education.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many bales of cotton went to London from the Black Belt by 1860?

2. Where does DuBois recall having taught, in Chapter 4?

3. What problem are the black farmers up against, that was not a problem during slavery?

4. Who does DuBois say enjoyed the heyday when cotton production expanded in West Dougherty County?

5. Who does DuBois say once embodied the ideals of American blacks?

(see the answer key)

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