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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?
(a) Rest.
(b) Justice.
(c) God.
(d) Revenge.

2. Where has Booker T. Washington been most criticized, in DuBois' account?
(a) From abroad.
(b) From northerners.
(c) From blacks.
(d) From southerners.

3. What time of his life did DuBois spend teaching in the South?
(a) Ten years after youth.
(b) The first ten years of his old age.
(c) The end of his youth.
(d) The first ten years of his maturity.

4. Who did DuBois enjoy staying with the best?
(a) Josie’s.
(b) The Dowell's.
(c) The Eddingses.
(d) The Lawrences.

5. What are black and white doing together in the poem that opens Chapter 5?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Rising.
(c) Sinking.
(d) Working.

Short Answer Questions

1. Booker T. Washington’s ascendancy is the most remarkable event in American race relations since when, according to DuBois?

2. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?

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

4. What does DuBois say people have valued too highly, in the most recent period of Reconstruction?

5. In what realm does DuBois want to work alongside whites?

(see the answer key)

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