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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are black and white doing together in the poem that opens Chapter 5?
(a) Working.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Sinking.
(d) Rising.

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

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

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

5. What conclusion does DuBois come to, regarding color-prejudice?
(a) It is part of human nature.
(b) It is a decision men make.
(c) It is the product of conditions.
(d) It is a relic of a previous time.

6. What does DuBois say is the problem of the twentieth century?
(a) The expansion of America.
(b) The relations of races.
(c) The development of markets.
(d) The dangers from Europe.

7. 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 just beginning to emerge.
(c) He says that it is more European than American.
(d) He says that it is an African rhythm in American life.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What was the result of the Revolution of 1876?
(a) The Fourteenth Amendment.
(b) The emancipation of slaves.
(c) Armed conflict.
(d) The suppression of black votes.

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

15. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?
(a) He says that he is invisible.
(b) He says that life does not know him.
(c) He says that he lives within the Veil.
(d) He says that he is superfluous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What most of the hundred hills of Atlanta crowned with, according to DuBois?

2. How does DuBois characterize the Burkes’ home, when he returns to their area?

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

4. What does DuBois say is the end that meat nourishes?

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

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