"Of Our Spiritual Strivings"

What is the speaker's tone in the epigraph?

• optimisitic
• humorous
• sad and unresting
• defiant

What can you infer about DuBois essay from the poem in the pretext?

• It will be about peace
• It will be about protest
• It will be about struggle
• Poems make my brain hurt

What is the unasked question?

• How does it feel to be a problem?
• What is for lunch
• How does it feel to be black
• How does it feel to be white

Why is the question unasked?

• anger and bitterness
• embarrassment 
• sorrow
• delicacy and difficulty framing it

To whom does the problem refer?

• black people
• white people
• the other world
• all of the above

What is a rhetorical question?

• A question
• A statement phrased as a question to show deeper meaning
• If I ask a rhetorical question about a rhetorical question will my brain explode?
• A evil plot by teachers to find extra meaning in simple texts

DuBois was......

• A sociologist 
• first black man to get a phd from Harvard
• Editor for the N.A.A.C.P.
• all of the above

Seldom means

• often 
• always
• never
• not often

Why was the problem different when the author was younger?

• He did not care as a child
• he was naiive as most children are in the ways of the world
• It did not matter due to his race
• He was always angry

What holiday do children exchange "gorgeous visiting cards?"

• Halloween
• Christmas
• Easter
• Valentine's Day