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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. The Black Belt is described as the ______ of the Confederacy.
(a) Blues capital.
(b) Bread basket.
(c) Swamp.
(d) Egypt.

2. What kind of work is DuBois doing, by portraying the inhabitants of Dougherty County?
(a) History.
(b) Zoology.
(c) Portraiture
(d) Anthropology.

3. What was at the heart of Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks?
(a) Business training.
(b) Classical education.
(c) Religious instruction.
(d) Industrial education.

4. In the present moment of DuBois’ writing, what is the state of the society that was built on cotton production in its heyday?
(a) Prosperous.
(b) Dilapidated.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Destroyed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois invoke when eh calls Atlanta the new Lachesis?

2. What does DuBois say is the end that meat nourishes?

3. When did ‘the fire of African freedom’ cease to burn in American’ slaves’ veins, according to DuBois?

4. What is the third stream of thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?

5. How does DuBois characterize the Freedmen’s Bureau’s role in assisting the blacks in the South?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What had happened to Josie in the years between DuBois’ teaching in her community and then his return?

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

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

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

8. Name some of the relief organizations who sent people and aid to the blacks in the South in cooperation with the Freedmen’s Bureau.

9. What was the effect of Field Order 15?

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

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