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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 is the second thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?
(a) That race is a harmless construct.
(b) That whites are usurpers.
(c) That Negroes are not human.
(d) That patience will be rewarded.

2. Who does DuBois say once embodied the ideals of American blacks?
(a) Mother and child.
(b) Businessman and customer.
(c) Soldier and senator.
(d) Preacher and teacher.

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

4. In what way does DuBois say blacks are torn?
(a) Between being black and being American.
(b) Between being loyal to the community or loyal to the nation.
(c) Between being loyal to Africa or loyal to America.
(d) Between being content with themselves, or outraged for their race.

5. Booker T. Washington’s ascendancy is the most remarkable event in American race relations since when, according to DuBois?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1860.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes conclude?

2. What problem are the black farmers up against, that was not a problem during slavery?

3. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?

4. What most of the hundred hills of Atlanta crowned with, according to DuBois?

5. Which was NOT one of the parties DuBois broke Southern society into, after the Civil War?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does DuBois characterize Josie?

3. What flaws does DuBois see in Booker T. Washington’s program?

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

5. What problem did freed blacks pose for the Union army, and what solution was ultimately found?

6. What preliminary solution does DuBois offer to the split in black consciousness?

7. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?

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

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

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

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