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

2. What conclusion does DuBois come to, regarding color-prejudice?
(a) It is a relic of a previous time.
(b) It is a decision men make.
(c) It is part of human nature.
(d) It is the product of conditions.

3. What traits does DuBois say are associated with the plantation Negro?
(a) Scheming wiliness.
(b) Shiftlessness.
(c) Joyful abandon.
(d) Sulky laziness.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are black and white doing together in the poem that opens Chapter 5?

3. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?

4. Who did DuBois enjoy staying with the best?

5. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does DuBois say is the result of the Freedmen’s Bureau’s work?

2. How does DuBois characterize Josie?

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

4. Sam Hose appears a number of times in The Souls of Black Folk. What was his story—what does his name represent?

5. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?

6. What ideal would W. E. B. DuBois have American blacks follow?

7. What kinds of things is DuBois interested in when he describes the Black Belt?

8. What is double-consciousness?

9. How does DuBois describe the atmosphere at Fisk University?

10. What was the effect of Field Order 15?

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