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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 Burkes’ home, when he returns to their area?
(a) Much improved.
(b) Rough but prosperous.
(c) Same as it was.
(d) Shoddy and failing.

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

3. What does DuBois say is the effect the Gospel of Pay has on the Gospel of Work?
(a) It befouls it.
(b) It uplifts it.
(c) It distracts from it.
(d) It ennobles it.

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

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

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

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

8. What is it that makes the shame in the poem that opens Chapter 6?
(a) Death cutting life short.
(b) The mind living in imagination.
(c) The heart bursting from vexation.
(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 is the Negro’s status as of his writing?
(a) Not free.
(b) Employed but not prospering.
(c) Educated but not well employed.
(d) Free but not educated.

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

12. In what way does DuBois say blacks are torn?
(a) Between being content with themselves, or outraged for their race.
(b) Between being loyal to Africa or loyal to America.
(c) Between being loyal to the community or loyal to the nation.
(d) Between being black and being American.

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

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

15. What does the first stream of thought call for, which DuBois describes in Chapter 6?
(a) Power to rule over powerless.
(b) Wisdom to help the helpless.
(c) Cooperation between men globally.
(d) Hierarchical gradations of personhood.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does DuBois say enjoyed the heyday when cotton production expanded in West Dougherty County?

3. What does DuBois invoke when eh calls Atlanta the new Lachesis?

4. To whom does the burden of the Negro Problem belong, in DuBois' account?

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

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