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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of pall hangs over the land of West Dougherty County?
(a) Absentee landlords.
(b) Despair.
(c) Violence.
(d) Debt.

3. How does DuBois characterize the Freedmen’s Bureau’s role in assisting the blacks in the South?
(a) Inconsequential.
(b) Powerless.
(c) One of many.
(d) Central.

4. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?
(a) The Negro Problem.
(b) America’s foreign policy.
(c) The right of blacks to vote.
(d) The price of cotton.

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

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

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

8. Who has come to embody the ideals of American blacks recently, according to DuBois?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) The old slave-owners.
(c) Wealthy people.
(d) Minstrels.

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

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

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

12. Who was the founder of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) Pierce.
(b) Cameron.
(c) Eaton.
(d) Lincoln.

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

14. What does DuBois want to teach a thinking man to do?
(a) Practice an art.
(b) Prosper.
(c) Think.
(d) Work.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does DuBois recall having taught, in Chapter 4?

2. What time of his life did DuBois spend teaching in the South?

3. What was Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?

4. What kinds of schools were blacks first given, after the Civil War?

5. What did the fifteenth amendment give blacks in America?

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