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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ben Butler’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?
(a) Send them back to their plantations.
(b) Educate them.
(c) Put them to work.
(d) Imprison them.

2. What problem are the black farmers up against, that was not a problem during slavery?
(a) Rising prices for cotton.
(b) Soil exhaustion.
(c) Lynching.
(d) Lack of police.

3. How does DuBois characterize the Burkes’ home, when he returns to their area?
(a) Rough but prosperous.
(b) Same as it was.
(c) Much improved.
(d) Shoddy and failing.

4. When was Alexander Crummell born?
(a) The Atlanta Compromise.
(b) The Great Compromise.
(c) The signing of the Constitution.
(d) The Missouri Compromise.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What news did DuBois get, at the beginning of the chapter?

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

3. What is the third stream of thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?

4. How does DuBois say the Africans placed slavery within their spiritual schema?

5. How long does it take John to come home?

(see the answer key)

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