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

2. The Black Belt is described as the ______ of the Confederacy.
(a) Bread basket.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Blues capital.
(d) Swamp.

3. What does DuBois ask the reader to do, in the Afterthought?
(a) Give the book to a friend.
(b) Talk about the color problem.
(c) Keep the book in circulation.
(d) Solve the color problem.

4. How does DuBois characterize the sorrow songs?
(a) Inescapable.
(b) catchy.
(c) Crushing.
(d) Weird.

5. What does DuBois say might change how the Veil sits on the American blacks?
(a) It might dissolve.
(b) It might be torn away.
(c) Someone might one day lift it.
(d) Someone could turn it into a funeral shroud for racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the chief form of relations between blacks and whites in the South, according to DuBois?

2. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?

3. Which church refused to admit Alexander Crummell?

4. Which is NOT one of the components of the Southern Negro Revival?

5. What art form comes most directly from the Sorrow Song?

(see the answer key)

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