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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
(a) Wait seven generations for full equality.
(b) Accept your submission.
(c) Pay us for freeing you.
(d) Rise to your potential.

2. How does DuBois characterize the arrival of freedom for blacks in America?
(a) A frightful vision.
(b) A fearful dream.
(c) An anti-climactic realization.
(d) A terrible waking.

3. What period does DuBois’ history cover, in Chapter 2?
(a) 1808 to 1860.
(b) 1860 to 1890.
(c) 1890 to the present.
(d) 1861 to 1872.

4. What does the person who wants to be free have to do, according to the poem that opens chapter 3?
(a) Strike a blow.
(b) Stop the fight.
(c) Receive a blow.
(d) Withdraw his fist.

5. How does DuBois characterize the Burkes’ home, when he returns to their area?
(a) Rough but prosperous.
(b) Much improved.
(c) Shoddy and failing.
(d) Same as it was.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?

2. Why did Ben fight with Sam Carlon?

3. What ideal did Booker T. Washington believe in, that allowed him to lead?

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

5. How many students did DuBois have in his first classroom?

(see the answer key)

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