The Souls of Black Folk Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Souls of Black Folk Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the central problem DuBois addresses?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Religion.
(c) Security.
(d) Education.

2. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?
(a) The right of blacks to vote.
(b) The Negro Problem.
(c) America’s foreign policy.
(d) The price of cotton.

3. Where does DuBois recall having taught, in Chapter 4?
(a) New York.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Chicago.

4. When did ‘the fire of African freedom’ cease to burn in American’ slaves’ veins, according to DuBois?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1750.

5. What is the afterthought to this thought, in DuBois' account?
(a) Resistance and laziness.
(b) Force and dominion.
(c) Despair and powerlessness.
(d) Doubt about men’s worth.

6. What does DuBois say he shared with the townspeople where he was teaching?
(a) A friendly antagonism.
(b) A deep hostility.
(c) A common consciousness.
(d) A similar problem.

7. What does DuBois say is the effect the Gospel of Pay has on the Gospel of Work?
(a) It befouls it.
(b) It distracts from it.
(c) It uplifts it.
(d) It ennobles it.

8. What was gained in the Atlanta Compromise?
(a) 40 acres and a mule for each former slave.
(b) The franchise.
(c) Economic training.
(d) Territory.

9. Where did industrial education fit, in the four stages of progress DuBois describes?
(a) Third, after normal schools but before universities.
(b) Last.
(c) Second, after university education.
(d) First.

10. What kind of pall hangs over the land of West Dougherty County?
(a) Absentee landlords.
(b) Debt.
(c) Violence.
(d) Despair.

11. Booker T. Washington’s ascendancy is the most remarkable event in American race relations since when, according to DuBois?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1808.

12. What does DuBois say the Negro Problem is a test of?
(a) American churches.
(b) American cities.
(c) American bureaucracy.
(d) American ideals.

13. What has the poet not kept, in the poem that starts Chapter 7?
(a) His family.
(b) His money.
(c) His own vineyard.
(d) His own honey.

14. What does DuBois say is the end that meat nourishes?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Self-realization.
(c) Religious feeling.
(d) Political power.

15. What does the person who wants to be free have to do, according to the poem that opens chapter 3?
(a) Withdraw his fist.
(b) Strike a blow.
(c) Receive a blow.
(d) Stop the fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Booker T. Washington been most criticized, in DuBois' account?

2. How does DuBois characterize progress.

3. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?

4. What is the goal of relief efforts for blacks, in DuBois' account?

5. Who was the founder of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

(see the answer keys)

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