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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does DuBois say blacks in the South abandoned politics?
(a) There were so many scandals it became disreputable.
(b) Without a fair judiciary, politics were senseless.
(c) There was too much violent opposition.
(d) The whites stole from them regardless of politics.

3. What is it that makes the shame in the poem that opens Chapter 6?
(a) The mind living in imagination.
(b) The heart bursting from vexation.
(c) Death cutting life short.
(d) The body restraining the soul.

4. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?
(a) In the library.
(b) On the scaffold.
(c) On the throne.
(d) In the sewer.

5. What is the dominant crop in the land DuBois describes?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Corn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of explanation does DuBois endeavor to provide, of the color line in the South?

2. What kind of pall hangs over the land of West Dougherty County?

3. Why did Ben fight with Sam Carlon?

4. When were the slaves emancipated in the U.S.?

5. What does DuBois say is the characteristic trend of his times?

(see the answer key)

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