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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?
(a) Educate them.
(b) Give them work.
(c) Send them north.
(d) Send them home.

2. What does DuBois say is the problem of the twentieth century?
(a) The relations of races.
(b) The dangers from Europe.
(c) The development of markets.
(d) The expansion of America.

3. Which was NOT one of the parties DuBois broke Southern society into, after the Civil War?
(a) The Negro.
(b) The Conquered.
(c) The Conquerors.
(d) The poor.

4. Who was the founder of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) Eaton.
(b) Cameron.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Pierce.

5. What does DuBois say is the Negro’s status as of his writing?
(a) Free but not educated.
(b) Not free.
(c) Educated but not well employed.
(d) Employed but not prospering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What period does DuBois’ history cover, in Chapter 2?

2. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?

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

4. What was Ben Butler’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?

5. How many blacks is W. E. B. DuBois accounting for in The Souls of Black Folk?

(see the answer key)

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