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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. Where did DuBois says that he learned that he was black?
(a) In the crib.
(b) In the womb.
(c) In his house.
(d) In school.
2. What was gained in the Atlanta Compromise?
(a) Economic training.
(b) Territory.
(c) 40 acres and a mule for each former slave.
(d) The franchise.
3. What does DuBois say the land of the Black Belt is full of?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Untold story.
(c) Unappeased spirits.
(d) Ancient blood.
4. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?
(a) He says that life does not know him.
(b) He says that he lives within the Veil.
(c) He says that he is superfluous.
(d) He says that he is invisible.
5. To whom does the burden of the Negro Problem belong, in DuBois' account?
(a) The world.
(b) The South.
(c) The nation.
(d) The slave owners.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?
2. What does DuBois want to teach a thinking man to do?
3. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?
4. What was at the heart of Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks?
5. Where has Booker T. Washington been most criticized, in DuBois' account?
Short Essay Questions
1. Whose influence does DuBois say has been superseded by the new authority of money?
2. What ideal would W. E. B. DuBois have American blacks follow?
3. What is the story of Atalanta, and how does DuBois apply it to the blacks in America?
4. What are the four periods of Southern education DuBois describes from the end of the War to the present?
5. What was Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks, and why did it prevail among its competing visions.
6. What gift does DuBois say the North made to the blacks in the South after the war?
7. How do absentee landlords affect life in the Black Belt?
8. Describe the labor problem facing freed blacks.
9. Sam Hose appears a number of times in The Souls of Black Folk. What was his story—what does his name represent?
10. What vision does DuBois have of his equality with artists and thinkers?
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