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

3. What kind of work is DuBois doing, by portraying the inhabitants of Dougherty County?
(a) Anthropology.
(b) Portraiture
(c) History.
(d) Zoology.

4. Who does DuBois say enjoyed the heyday when cotton production expanded in West Dougherty County?
(a) The Negroes.
(b) The Northern merchants.
(c) The nouveau riche.
(d) The slave traders.

5. What does DuBois say is the end that meat nourishes?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Religious feeling.
(c) Self-realization.
(d) Political power.

6. What is it that makes the shame in the poem that opens Chapter 6?
(a) Death cutting life short.
(b) The body restraining the soul.
(c) The heart bursting from vexation.
(d) The mind living in imagination.

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. What is the third stream of thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?
(a) Thoughts of revenge.
(b) The longing for the past.
(c) Greedy thoughts of profit.
(d) Aspiration to equality.

13. What does DuBois want to teach a thinking man to do?
(a) Work.
(b) Think.
(c) Practice an art.
(d) Prosper.

14. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?
(a) The right of blacks to vote.
(b) The price of cotton.
(c) The Negro Problem.
(d) America’s foreign policy.

15. What lightened DuBois’ teacher training?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Picnics.
(c) Religious services.
(d) Concerts.