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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the Burkes’ home, when he returns to their area?
(a) Much improved.
(b) Shoddy and failing.
(c) Same as it was.
(d) Rough but prosperous.

2. The Black Belt is described as the ______ of the Confederacy.
(a) Blues capital.
(b) Bread basket.
(c) Swamp.
(d) Egypt.

3. In what realm does DuBois want to work alongside whites?
(a) The international stage.
(b) The free market.
(c) The public sphere.
(d) The kingdom of culture.

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

5. Which was NOT one of the parties DuBois broke Southern society into, after the Civil War?
(a) The Conquered.
(b) The poor.
(c) The Negro.
(d) The Conquerors.

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

7. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
(a) Wait seven generations for full equality.
(b) Accept your submission.
(c) Pay us for freeing you.
(d) Rise to your potential.

8. What most of the hundred hills of Atlanta crowned with, according to DuBois?
(a) Parks.
(b) Schools.
(c) Factories.
(d) Mansions.

9. How long ago did this teaching take place, from the moment of DuBois’ writing?
(a) Six months.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Seventeen years.

10. Where does DuBois recall having taught, in Chapter 4?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Michigan.
(d) New York.

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

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

13. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?
(a) Revenge.
(b) God.
(c) Justice.
(d) Rest.

14. What does DuBois say is the effect the Gospel of Pay has on the Gospel of Work?
(a) It ennobles it.
(b) It uplifts it.
(c) It distracts from it.
(d) It befouls it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of the Revolution of 1876?

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

3. What does DuBois say people have valued too highly, in the most recent period of Reconstruction?

4. What does DuBois say is the Negro’s status as of his writing?

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

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