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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does DuBois say the land of the Black Belt is full of?
(a) Ancient blood.
(b) Untold story.
(c) Unappeased spirits.
(d) Poverty.

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

3. What does DuBois propose as the solution to race prejudice?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Regulation.
(c) Education.
(d) Prosperity.

4. How does DuBois characterize Hippomenes?
(a) Timid.
(b) Wily.
(c) Courageous.
(d) Brazen.

5. Where did DuBois says that he learned that he was black?
(a) In his house.
(b) In school.
(c) In the womb.
(d) In the crib.

6. What does Hippomenes do to win the race and marry Atalanta?
(a) Tie her down with golden thread.
(b) Distract her with golden apples.
(c) Divert the racecourse.
(d) Set a trap and capture her.

7. In the present moment of DuBois’ writing, what is the state of the society that was built on cotton production in its heyday?
(a) Prosperous.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Destroyed.
(d) Dilapidated.

8. Who has come to embody the ideals of American blacks recently, according to DuBois?
(a) The old slave-owners.
(b) Wealthy people.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Minstrels.

9. Who made the final word on policy regarding escaped slaves arriving in Union Army lines?
(a) Butler.
(b) Halleck.
(c) Fremont.
(d) Cameron.

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

11. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?
(a) On the scaffold.
(b) On the throne.
(c) In the library.
(d) In the sewer.

12. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?
(a) She was living in town.
(b) She had died.
(c) She was still in the same house.
(d) She had moved to the city.

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

14. How does DuBois characterize the slave kindergarten that was raised in West Dougherty County?
(a) The most motivated.
(b) The most fractious
(c) The richest ever.
(d) The most intractable.

15. Who does DuBois say once embodied the ideals of American blacks?
(a) Businessman and customer.
(b) Mother and child.
(c) Preacher and teacher.
(d) Soldier and senator.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did industrial education fit, in the four stages of progress DuBois describes?

3. In what way does DuBois say blacks are torn?

4. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?

5. What ideal did Booker T. Washington believe in, that allowed him to lead?

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