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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does DuBois say his son was fortunate?
(a) He was better loved than anyone else in DuBois’ family.
(b) He never learned language in order to curse being born.
(c) He got to experience the sweetest part of life.
(d) He never had to contend with a world that would see him as inferior.

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

3. What Indian tribe’s land is Atlanta in?
(a) Creek.
(b) Chicasaw.
(c) Cherokee
(d) Cree.

4. What consolation does DuBois imagine, for the likelihood that his son would have lived in a racist society, if he lived?
(a) He might always have returned to Africa.
(b) He might have borne it lighter than he himself had.
(c) He might have become the leader who would change things.
(d) The times might have changed by the time he matured.

5. What kind of pall hangs over the land of West Dougherty County?
(a) Debt.
(b) Despair.
(c) Violence.
(d) Absentee landlords.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What news did DuBois get, at the beginning of the chapter?

3. What kind of work is DuBois doing, by portraying the inhabitants of Dougherty County?

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

5. How does DuBois characterize the slave kindergarten that was raised in West Dougherty County?

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