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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?
(a) He says that it is just beginning to emerge.
(b) He says that it is more European than American.
(c) He says that it is an African rhythm in American life.
(d) He says that it is the true American music.

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

3. Why did Ben fight with Sam Carlon?
(a) Carlon had insulted him.
(b) Carlon had tried to seduce his sister.
(c) Carlon had not paid him for his work.
(d) Carlon had stolen from him.

4. What is the second thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?
(a) That whites are usurpers.
(b) That Negroes are not human.
(c) That patience will be rewarded.
(d) That race is a harmless construct.

5. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?
(a) Doubt.
(b) Proud.
(c) Elation.
(d) Safe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the afterthought to this third thought, in DuBois' account?

2. What does the first stream of thought call for, which DuBois describes in Chapter 6?

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

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

5. What does DuBois want to teach a thinking man to do?

(see the answer key)

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