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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the founder of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Pierce.
(c) Cameron.
(d) Eaton.

3. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) Workers in the American business.
(b) Wards of the U.S. government.
(c) Students of democracy.
(d) Children of each state.

4. What does DuBois say you must pass through on the way to the Temple of Knowledge?
(a) The Valley of the Shadow of Death.
(b) The Sea of Doubt.
(c) The Door of Self-knowledge.
(d) The Gates of Toil.

5. What does DuBois say is the Negro’s status as of his writing?
(a) Educated but not well employed.
(b) Not free.
(c) Employed but not prospering.
(d) Free but not educated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois propose to measure a bushel of wheat against, at the end of Chapter 4?

2. What kinds of schools were blacks first given, after the Civil War?

3. Who does DuBois say does not wince when he sits with him?

4. What time of his life did DuBois spend teaching in the South?

5. What ideal does DuBois say has vanished?

Short Essay Questions

1. What preliminary solution does DuBois offer to the split in black consciousness?

2. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?

3. What mistake does DuBois say the South has made in regard to educating the blacks?

4. What are the three thoughts DuBois describes at the beginning of Chapter 6—and the three afterthoughts that follow them?

5. What are the four periods of Southern education DuBois describes from the end of the War to the present?

6. How do absentee landlords affect life in the Black Belt?

7. Describe the labor problem facing freed blacks.

8. When did DuBois discover that he lived ‘within the Veil’?

9. What ideal would W. E. B. DuBois have American blacks follow?

10. What had happened to Josie in the years between DuBois’ teaching in her community and then his return?

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