View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many students did DuBois have in his first classroom?
(a) 24.
(b) 18.
(c) 30.
(d) 12.

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

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

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

5. What is the second thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?
(a) That Negroes are not human.
(b) That whites are usurpers.
(c) That patience will be rewarded.
(d) That race is a harmless construct.

6. To whom does the burden of the Negro Problem belong, in DuBois' account?
(a) The slave owners.
(b) The nation.
(c) The world.
(d) The South.

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

8. What does DuBois invoke when eh calls Atlanta the new Lachesis?
(a) Cutting off commerce.
(b) Measuring men’s lives.
(c) Preparing cloth.
(d) Spinning thread.

9. What conclusion does DuBois come to, regarding color-prejudice?
(a) It is part of human nature.
(b) It is a relic of a previous time.
(c) It is a decision men make.
(d) It is the product of conditions.

10. What explanation does DuBois make for the laziness of the blacks he meets?
(a) Temperament.
(b) Social influence.
(c) Racial inferiority.
(d) Social injustice.

11. What state is the Black Belt in?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Florida.

12. In what way does DuBois say blacks are torn?
(a) Between being content with themselves, or outraged for their race.
(b) Between being black and being American.
(c) Between being loyal to the community or loyal to the nation.
(d) Between being loyal to Africa or loyal to America.

13. Where has Booker T. Washington been most criticized, in DuBois' account?
(a) From abroad.
(b) From northerners.
(c) From blacks.
(d) From southerners.

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

15. What is the third stream of thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?
(a) Thoughts of revenge.
(b) Aspiration to equality.
(c) Greedy thoughts of profit.
(d) The longing for the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the arrival of freedom for blacks in America?

2. Where did DuBois says that he learned that he was black?

3. What period does DuBois’ history cover, in Chapter 2?

4. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?

5. What was Fremont’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 464 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample