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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
(a) Pay us for freeing you.
(b) Wait seven generations for full equality.
(c) Rise to your potential.
(d) Accept your submission.

2. What state is the Black Belt in?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Florida.
(d) Tennessee.

3. What news did DuBois get, at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) That his wife had died.
(b) That his son had died.
(c) That his son had been born.
(d) That his son was sick.

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

5. When does DuBois say universal suffrage a popular topic in the South?
(a) The 1870s.
(b) The 1890s.
(c) The 1820s.
(d) The 1850s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the son’s relation to the Veil?

2. Who told DuBois of the school where he ended up teaching?

3. How does the myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes conclude?

4. What does DuBois say his first feeling for his son was?

5. How long did DuBois’ son live before dying?

(see the answer key)

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