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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize progress.
(a) Potentially devastating.
(b) Surprisingly quiet.
(c) Often beautiful.
(d) Necessarily ugly.

2. What problem are the black farmers up against, that was not a problem during slavery?
(a) Soil exhaustion.
(b) Lynching.
(c) Lack of police.
(d) Rising prices for cotton.

3. What does DuBois say his wife had had to do, to produce their son?
(a) Be reborn.
(b) Sleep with death.
(c) Allow herself to be enslaved.
(d) Liberate herself.

4. How frequently did DuBois have to convince the parents about the value of book-learning?
(a) Monthly.
(b) Rarely.
(c) Daily.
(d) Weekly.

5. What state is the Black Belt in?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Florida.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What consolation does DuBois imagine, for the likelihood that his son would have lived in a racist society, if he lived?

2. What aspect of his son did DuBois consider an evil omen?

3. In what way does DuBois say his son was fortunate?

4. What lightened DuBois’ teacher training?

5. What does DuBois say is the world’s most piteous thing?

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