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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does DuBois propose to measure a bushel of wheat against, at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Lynched black men.
(b) Heartfuls of sorrow.
(c) Black women’s tears.
(d) Black blood.

2. What was Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?
(a) Self-assertion.
(b) Accommodation.
(c) Submission.
(d) Evolution.

3. Who does DuBois say enjoyed the heyday when cotton production expanded in West Dougherty County?
(a) The Northern merchants.
(b) The slave traders.
(c) The nouveau riche.
(d) The Negroes.

4. What does DuBois say people have valued too highly, in the most recent period of Reconstruction?
(a) Politics.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Liberty.

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

6. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?
(a) Send them north.
(b) Send them home.
(c) Give them work.
(d) Educate them.

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

8. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?
(a) He says that it is the true American music.
(b) He says that it is more European than American.
(c) He says that it is just beginning to emerge.
(d) He says that it is an African rhythm in American life.

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

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

11. What is the goal of relief efforts for blacks, in DuBois' account?
(a) Legal system reforms.
(b) Economic independence.
(c) Repatriation to Africa.
(d) Individual self-realization.

12. What time of his life did DuBois spend teaching in the South?
(a) The end of his youth.
(b) Ten years after youth.
(c) The first ten years of his old age.
(d) The first ten years of his maturity.

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

14. How does DuBois characterize progress.
(a) Potentially devastating.
(b) Surprisingly quiet.
(c) Necessarily ugly.
(d) Often beautiful.

15. What was given up in the Atlanta Compromise?
(a) Legal rights.
(b) Territory.
(c) Money.
(d) The vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ben fight with Sam Carlon?

2. How many blacks is W. E. B. DuBois accounting for in The Souls of Black Folk?

3. Who told DuBois of the school where he ended up teaching?

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

5. How many organizations does DuBois say coordinated with the Freedmen’s Bureau?

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