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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the afterthought to this third thought, in DuBois' account?
(a) Doubts about whites’ power.
(b) Dread of confrontation.
(c) Doubt about blacks’ worth.
(d) Despair over human nature.
2. What is it that makes the shame in the poem that opens Chapter 6?
(a) The mind living in imagination.
(b) Death cutting life short.
(c) The body restraining the soul.
(d) The heart bursting from vexation.
3. How many Negro churches were there in the 1890 census?
(a) 2,400.
(b) 1,300.
(c) 9,000.
(d) 8,500.
4. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
(a) Wait seven generations for full equality.
(b) Rise to your potential.
(c) Pay us for freeing you.
(d) Accept your submission.
5. What is the dominant crop in the land DuBois describes?
(a) Corn.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Cotton.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does DuBois say the nineteenth century is the first century of?
2. How does DuBois characterize the war’s effect on Atlanta?
3. What does DuBois say should be the purpose of all striving in the twentieth century?
4. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?
5. What aspect of his son did DuBois consider an evil omen?
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