Quiz Review: Chapter 1 from The Souls of Black Folk

In Chapter 1, what ideal for racial equality replaced political power?

• business success

• manual labor

• policing

• education

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CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.9

What is the central metaphor in Chapter 1?

• wall

• veil

• prison house

• a key

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

According to DuBois, which of the following terms clearly explains the feeling of being black in America?

• double consciousness

• racial equality

• veiled threat

• emancipation

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

“Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars…” is an example of what type of word choice?

• connotative

• technical

• figurative

How does DuBois open up his chapter?

• quote

• poem

• letter

• introduction paragraph

Which of the following quotes represents the experience of double consciousness?

• "Up the new path the advance guard toiled, slowly, heavily, doggedly; only those who have watched and guided the faltering feet, the misty minds, the dull understandings, of the dark pupils of these schools know how faithfully, how piteously, this people strove to learn."

• "To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."

• "this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."

• "At last it came, —suddenly, fearfully, like a dream."

“Emancipation was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before the eyes of wearied Israelites.” What is the allusion in this quote?

• the key

• sweeter beauty

• promised land

• stretched

"Work, culture, liberty,—all these we need, not singly but together, not successively but together, each growing and aiding each, and all striving toward that vaster ideal that swims before the Negro people, the ideal of human brotherhood, gained through the unifying ideal of Race..." Does this quote represent Washington or DuBois' ideal for racial equality?

Towards the end of DuBois' chapter, DuBois discussed the burdens of black Americans in the early 1900s. He discussed racial inequality and poverty. Which of the following reflects another burden they had to carry?

• pride

• indecisiveness

• policing

• ignorance

What personal story did DuBois share in the beginning of his essay to introduce his central idea?

• mistreatment at his wedding

• first experience with racism

• discrimination at the workplace

• earning his doctorate