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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What Indian tribe’s land is Atlanta in?
(a) Cree.
(b) Chicasaw.
(c) Creek.
(d) Cherokee

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

5. In the present moment of DuBois’ writing, what is the state of the society that was built on cotton production in its heyday?
(a) Destroyed.
(b) Dilapidated.
(c) Prosperous.
(d) Industrial.

6. Which of these things did Booker T. Washington NOT ask American Negroes to give up?
(a) Political power.
(b) Representation in taxation.
(c) Higher education.
(d) Insistence on civil rights.

7. Which was NOT one of the parties DuBois broke Southern society into, after the Civil War?
(a) The Conquerors.
(b) The poor.
(c) The Negro.
(d) The Conquered.

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

9. How many bales of cotton went to London from the Black Belt by 1860?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 20,000.

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

11. How does DuBois characterize the arrival of freedom for blacks in America?
(a) An anti-climactic realization.
(b) A fearful dream.
(c) A terrible waking.
(d) A frightful vision.

12. What kind of pall hangs over the land of West Dougherty County?
(a) Despair.
(b) Debt.
(c) Absentee landlords.
(d) Violence.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third stream of thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?

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

3. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?

4. What does DuBois say you must pass through on the way to the Temple of Knowledge?

5. What traits does DuBois say are associated with the plantation Negro?

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