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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What has the poet not kept, in the poem that starts Chapter 7?
(a) His family.
(b) His money.
(c) His own vineyard.
(d) His own honey.

4. What does Hippomenes do to win the race and marry Atalanta?
(a) Set a trap and capture her.
(b) Distract her with golden apples.
(c) Tie her down with golden thread.
(d) Divert the racecourse.

5. How many students did DuBois have in his first classroom?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 24.
(d) 30.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What kinds of schools were blacks first given, after the Civil War?
(a) Normal schools.
(b) Universities.
(c) Army schools.
(d) Country schools.

12. Why did Ben fight with Sam Carlon?
(a) Carlon had insulted him.
(b) Carlon had not paid him for his work.
(c) Carlon had tried to seduce his sister.
(d) Carlon had stolen from him.

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

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

15. What time of his life did DuBois spend teaching in the South?
(a) The end of his youth.
(b) The first ten years of his old age.
(c) The first ten years of his maturity.
(d) Ten years after youth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does DuBois say once embodied the ideals of American blacks?

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

3. What is the afterthought to this third thought, in DuBois' account?

4. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?

5. What kind of pall hangs over the land of West Dougherty County?

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