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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Chapter 11, On the Passing of the Firstborn, different from the other chapters?
(a) It is much more bitter.
(b) It is much more reassuring.
(c) It is much more guarded.
(d) It is much more personal.

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

3. 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 old age.
(c) The first ten years of his maturity.
(d) Ten years after youth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does DuBois say his wife had had to do, to produce their son?

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

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

5. How does DuBois characterize progress.

(see the answer key)

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