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

2. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) Children of each state.
(b) Wards of the U.S. government.
(c) Workers in the American business.
(d) Students of democracy.

3. What does DuBois invoke when eh calls Atlanta the new Lachesis?
(a) Cutting off commerce.
(b) Measuring men’s lives.
(c) Preparing cloth.
(d) Spinning thread.

4. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?
(a) He says that it is more European than American.
(b) He says that it is an African rhythm in American life.
(c) He says that it is the true American music.
(d) He says that it is just beginning to emerge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the goal of relief efforts for blacks, in DuBois' account?

2. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?

3. When were the slaves emancipated in the U.S.?

4. How many organizations does DuBois say coordinated with the Freedmen’s Bureau?

5. Who did DuBois enjoy staying with the best?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the three thoughts DuBois describes at the beginning of Chapter 6—and the three afterthoughts that follow them?

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

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 Whose influence does DuBois say has been superseded by the new authority of money?

5. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?

6. What is the story of Atalanta, and how does DuBois apply it to the blacks in America?

7. How does DuBois characterize Josie?

8. What was Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks, and why did it prevail among its competing visions.

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 does DuBois say is the problem surrounding Negro suffrage?

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