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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?
(a) Self-assertion.
(b) Accommodation.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Submission.

3. What is the goal of relief efforts for blacks, in DuBois' account?
(a) Individual self-realization.
(b) Economic independence.
(c) Legal system reforms.
(d) Repatriation to Africa.

4. How does the myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes conclude?
(a) With consecration.
(b) With profanation.
(c) With sanctification.
(d) With desertion.

5. Where did DuBois says that he learned that he was black?
(a) In the womb.
(b) In school.
(c) In his house.
(d) In the crib.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state is the Black Belt in?

2. What was gained in the Atlanta Compromise?

3. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?

4. How does DuBois characterize progress.

5. What does the first stream of thought call for, which DuBois describes in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whose influence does DuBois say has been superseded by the new authority of money?

2. What mistake does DuBois say the South has made in regard to educating the blacks?

3. What does DuBois say is the problem surrounding Negro suffrage?

4. How does DuBois characterize the problem he is addressing, in the Forethought?

5. Describe the labor problem facing freed blacks.

6. What debt does DuBois say the blacks are owed?

7. Where does DuBois see the first evidence of blacks’ cultural contribution?

8. How does DuBois characterize the intersection of blackness and Americanness?

9. What was the effect of Field Order 15?

10. How does DuBois characterize Josie?

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