View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who does DuBois say does not wince when he sits with him?
(a) His boss.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) His student.
(d) His student's father.

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

8. How does DuBois characterize the war’s effect on Atlanta?
(a) A rebirth.
(b) An iron baptism.
(c) A shedding and emergence.
(d) A trial by fire.

9. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?
(a) Doubt.
(b) Safe.
(c) Proud.
(d) Elation.

10. What is it that makes the shame in the poem that opens Chapter 6?
(a) The heart bursting from vexation.
(b) Death cutting life short.
(c) The body restraining the soul.
(d) The mind living in imagination.

11. What period does DuBois’ history cover, in Chapter 2?
(a) 1808 to 1860.
(b) 1890 to the present.
(c) 1860 to 1890.
(d) 1861 to 1872.

12. How many blacks is W. E. B. DuBois accounting for in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 1,300.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 1 million.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the central problem DuBois addresses?

2. When were the slaves emancipated in the U.S.?

3. What kind of work is DuBois doing, by portraying the inhabitants of Dougherty County?

4. What does DuBois say the land of the Black Belt is full of?

5. What does the first stream of thought call for, which DuBois describes in Chapter 6?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 448 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample