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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who told DuBois of the school where he ended up teaching?
(a) Uncle Bird.
(b) Colonel Wheeler.
(c) Thenie.
(d) Josie.

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

3. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?
(a) She had moved to the city.
(b) She was still in the same house.
(c) She had died.
(d) She was living in town.

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

5. How does DuBois characterize the Freedmen’s Bureau’s role in assisting the blacks in the South?
(a) Inconsequential.
(b) Powerless.
(c) Central.
(d) One of many.

Short Answer Questions

1. What most of the hundred hills of Atlanta crowned with, according to DuBois?

2. What was given up in the Atlanta Compromise?

3. Which of these things did Booker T. Washington NOT ask American Negroes to give up?

4. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?

5. What is the afterthought to this second thought, in DuBois' account?

(see the answer key)

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