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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the fifteenth amendment give blacks in America?
(a) The vote.
(b) Full representation.
(c) Free education.
(d) Personhood.

6. How does DuBois characterize the arrival of freedom for blacks in America?
(a) An anti-climactic realization.
(b) A terrible waking.
(c) A frightful vision.
(d) A fearful dream.

7. What ideal does DuBois say has vanished?
(a) The Southern gentleman.
(b) The gentleman farmer.
(c) The northern businessman.
(d) The noble servant.

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

9. What does DuBois say he shared with the townspeople where he was teaching?
(a) A common consciousness.
(b) A friendly antagonism.
(c) A deep hostility.
(d) A similar problem.

10. What is the central problem DuBois addresses?
(a) Education.
(b) Security.
(c) Religion.
(d) Commerce.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize progress.

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

3. How does DuBois characterize the slave kindergarten that was raised in West Dougherty County?

4. What does DuBois say is the effect the Gospel of Pay has on the Gospel of Work?

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

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