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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 time of his life did DuBois spend teaching in the South?
(a) Ten years after youth.
(b) The end of his youth.
(c) The first ten years of his old age.
(d) The first ten years of his maturity.

2. Who does DuBois say does not wince when he sits with him?
(a) His student.
(b) His boss.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) His student's father.

3. What does DuBois say the Negro Problem is a test of?
(a) American ideals.
(b) American cities.
(c) American churches.
(d) American bureaucracy.

4. What is the central problem DuBois addresses?
(a) Security.
(b) Religion.
(c) Education.
(d) Commerce.

5. What most of the hundred hills of Atlanta crowned with, according to DuBois?
(a) Mansions.
(b) Parks.
(c) Schools.
(d) Factories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say is the Negro’s status as of his writing?

2. Booker T. Washington’s ascendancy is the most remarkable event in American race relations since when, according to DuBois?

3. What traits does DuBois say are associated with the plantation Negro?

4. What is the afterthought to this thought, in DuBois' account?

5. What period does DuBois’ history cover, in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What vision does DuBois have of his equality with artists and thinkers?

2. What is double-consciousness?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What mistake does DuBois say the South has made in regard to educating the blacks?

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

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