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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?
(a) The Negro Problem.
(b) America’s foreign policy.
(c) The price of cotton.
(d) The right of blacks to vote.

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

3. Booker T. Washington’s ascendancy is the most remarkable event in American race relations since when, according to DuBois?
(a) 1808.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1865.

4. In what realm does DuBois want to work alongside whites?
(a) The free market.
(b) The public sphere.
(c) The international stage.
(d) The kingdom of culture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say the Negro Problem is a test of?

2. What lightened DuBois’ teacher training?

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

4. What was the result of the Revolution of 1876?

5. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?

(see the answer key)

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