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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did DuBois enjoy staying with the best?
(a) The Dowell's.
(b) The Lawrences.
(c) The Eddingses.
(d) Josie’s.

3. When did ‘the fire of African freedom’ cease to burn in American’ slaves’ veins, according to DuBois?
(a) 1750.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1808.

4. What was given up in the Atlanta Compromise?
(a) The vote.
(b) Legal rights.
(c) Territory.
(d) Money.

5. Where does DuBois recall having taught, in Chapter 4?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Michigan.
(d) New York.

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

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

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

9. What was gained in the Atlanta Compromise?
(a) 40 acres and a mule for each former slave.
(b) Territory.
(c) The franchise.
(d) Economic training.

10. 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.

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

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 stolen from him.
(d) Carlon had tried to seduce his sister.

13. What did the fifteenth amendment give blacks in America?
(a) Full representation.
(b) Personhood.
(c) The vote.
(d) Free education.

14. What ideal does DuBois say has vanished?
(a) The gentleman farmer.
(b) The noble servant.
(c) The Southern gentleman.
(d) The northern businessman.

15. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?
(a) She had died.
(b) She had moved to the city.
(c) She was still in the same house.
(d) She was living in town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Fremont’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?

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

3. What does DuBois say the Negro Problem is a test of?

4. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?

5. What does Hippomenes do to win the race and marry Atalanta?

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