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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What traits does DuBois say are associated with the plantation Negro?
(a) Sulky laziness.
(b) Shiftlessness.
(c) Joyful abandon.
(d) Scheming wiliness.

2. Who did DuBois enjoy staying with the best?
(a) The Lawrences.
(b) The Dowell's.
(c) Josie’s.
(d) The Eddingses.

3. How does DuBois characterize Hippomenes?
(a) Brazen.
(b) Wily.
(c) Timid.
(d) Courageous.

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

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

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

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

8. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?
(a) He says that it is the true American music.
(b) He says that it is an African rhythm in American life.
(c) He says that it is more European than American.
(d) He says that it is just beginning to emerge.

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

10. What does DuBois say the Negro Problem is a test of?
(a) American cities.
(b) American bureaucracy.
(c) American ideals.
(d) American churches.

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

12. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) Wards of the U.S. government.
(b) Students of democracy.
(c) Workers in the American business.
(d) Children of each state.

13. What is the goal of relief efforts for blacks, in DuBois' account?
(a) Economic independence.
(b) Repatriation to Africa.
(c) Legal system reforms.
(d) Individual self-realization.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Fremont’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?

2. What lightened DuBois’ teacher training?

3. When did ‘the fire of African freedom’ cease to burn in American’ slaves’ veins, according to DuBois?

4. The Black Belt is described as the ______ of the Confederacy.

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

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