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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. Which was NOT one of the parties DuBois broke Southern society into, after the Civil War?
(a) The poor.
(b) The Conquered.
(c) The Negro.
(d) The Conquerors.

2. What does DuBois say the land of the Black Belt is full of?
(a) Untold story.
(b) Ancient blood.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Unappeased spirits.

3. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?
(a) Safe.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Elation.
(d) Proud.

4. How does DuBois characterize the Freedmen’s Bureau’s role in assisting the blacks in the South?
(a) Inconsequential.
(b) Central.
(c) Powerless.
(d) One of many.

5. How frequently did DuBois have to convince the parents about the value of book-learning?
(a) Daily.
(b) Rarely.
(c) Weekly.
(d) Monthly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize progress.

2. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?

3. What was Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?

4. Why did Ben fight with Sam Carlon?

5. Where has Booker T. Washington been most criticized, in DuBois' account?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the effect of Field Order 15?

2. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?

3. What are the four periods of Southern education DuBois describes from the end of the War to the present?

4. What is double-consciousness?

5. Describe the growth of the population of blacks in Georgia from 1808 to the war.

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

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

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

9. How do absentee landlords affect life in the Black Belt?

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

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