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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does DuBois characterize progress.
(a) Often beautiful.
(b) Potentially devastating.
(c) Necessarily ugly.
(d) Surprisingly quiet.

3. What was at the heart of Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks?
(a) Industrial education.
(b) Business training.
(c) Religious instruction.
(d) Classical education.

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

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

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

7. What does DuBois propose as the solution to race prejudice?
(a) Regulation.
(b) Education.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) Prosperity.

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

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

10. What was Fremont’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?
(a) Send them home.
(b) Relocate them.
(c) Put them to work.
(d) Free them.

11. What explanation does DuBois make for the laziness of the blacks he meets?
(a) Social influence.
(b) Racial inferiority.
(c) Social injustice.
(d) Temperament.

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

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

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

15. How many organizations does DuBois say coordinated with the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) More than 200.
(b) More than 400.
(c) More than 500.
(d) More than 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did DuBois says that he learned that he was black?

2. What is the second thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?

3. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?

4. Who told DuBois of the school where he ended up teaching?

5. What does DuBois say is the problem of the twentieth century?

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