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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?
(a) She had moved to the city.
(b) She was still in the same house.
(c) She had died.
(d) She was living in town.

3. What is the afterthought to this third thought, in DuBois' account?
(a) Dread of confrontation.
(b) Despair over human nature.
(c) Doubt about blacks’ worth.
(d) Doubts about whites’ power.

4. What was DuBois’ solution to feeling isolated by his race?
(a) To suck up to people.
(b) To make new friends.
(c) To beat his classmates.
(d) To isolate himself socially.

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

6. Where did industrial education fit, in the four stages of progress DuBois describes?
(a) Last.
(b) Third, after normal schools but before universities.
(c) First.
(d) Second, after university education.

7. What kind of work is DuBois doing, by portraying the inhabitants of Dougherty County?
(a) Portraiture
(b) Anthropology.
(c) History.
(d) Zoology.

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

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

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

11. Who does DuBois say once embodied the ideals of American blacks?
(a) Mother and child.
(b) Preacher and teacher.
(c) Soldier and senator.
(d) Businessman and customer.

12. When were the slaves emancipated in the U.S.?
(a) 1808.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1865.

13. What ideal did Booker T. Washington believe in, that allowed him to lead?
(a) Intellectual equality.
(b) Religious transcendence.
(c) Material prosperity.
(d) Political representation.

14. Who told DuBois of the school where he ended up teaching?
(a) Josie.
(b) Thenie.
(c) Uncle Bird.
(d) Colonel Wheeler.

15. How does the myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes conclude?
(a) With desertion.
(b) With sanctification.
(c) With consecration.
(d) With profanation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Booker T. Washington’s ascendancy is the most remarkable event in American race relations since when, according to DuBois?

2. Who has come to embody the ideals of American blacks recently, according to DuBois?

3. What was at the heart of Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks?

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

5. What was given up in the Atlanta Compromise?

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