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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. What kind of pall hangs over the land of West Dougherty County?
(a) Absentee landlords.
(b) Debt.
(c) Despair.
(d) Violence.
2. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?
(a) He says that it is an African rhythm in American life.
(b) He says that it is just beginning to emerge.
(c) He says that it is the true American music.
(d) He says that it is more European than American.
3. What does DuBois say he shared with the townspeople where he was teaching?
(a) A similar problem.
(b) A deep hostility.
(c) A common consciousness.
(d) A friendly antagonism.
4. Who does DuBois say once embodied the ideals of American blacks?
(a) Businessman and customer.
(b) Soldier and senator.
(c) Mother and child.
(d) Preacher and teacher.
5. Where has Booker T. Washington been most criticized, in DuBois' account?
(a) From blacks.
(b) From northerners.
(c) From southerners.
(d) From abroad.
Short Answer Questions
1. What conclusion does DuBois come to, regarding color-prejudice?
2. What was Ben Butler’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?
3. Who made the final word on policy regarding escaped slaves arriving in Union Army lines?
4. What does DuBois say is the Negro’s status as of his writing?
5. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does DuBois characterize the problem he is addressing, in the Forethought?
2. Whose influence does DuBois say has been superseded by the new authority of money?
3. What was the effect of Field Order 15?
4. What does DuBois say is the problem surrounding Negro suffrage?
5. When did DuBois discover that he lived ‘within the Veil’?
6. What preliminary solution does DuBois offer to the split in black consciousness?
7. How does DuBois characterize the intersection of blackness and Americanness?
8. What was Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks, and why did it prevail among its competing visions.
9. What problem did freed blacks pose for the Union army, and what solution was ultimately found?
10. How do absentee landlords affect life in the Black Belt?
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