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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 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.

2. What state is the Black Belt in?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Florida.
(d) Tennessee.

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

4. What does DuBois say is the end that meat nourishes?
(a) Political power.
(b) Self-realization.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Religious feeling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does DuBois recall having taught, in Chapter 4?

2. What was given up in the Atlanta Compromise?

3. Who does DuBois say does not wince when he sits with him?

4. In what way does DuBois say blacks are torn?

5. What kind of work is DuBois doing, by portraying the inhabitants of Dougherty County?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the labor problem facing freed blacks.

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

3. What was the Atlanta Compromise?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What gift does DuBois say the North made to the blacks in the South after the war?

10. What does DuBois say is the problem surrounding Negro suffrage?

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