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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. How does DuBois characterize the arrival of freedom for blacks in America?
(a) An anti-climactic realization.
(b) A terrible waking.
(c) A fearful dream.
(d) A frightful vision.

2. Where has Booker T. Washington been most criticized, in DuBois' account?
(a) From abroad.
(b) From southerners.
(c) From northerners.
(d) From blacks.

3. 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.

4. Who has come to embody the ideals of American blacks recently, according to DuBois?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Wealthy people.
(c) The old slave-owners.
(d) Minstrels.

5. What was DuBois’ solution to feeling isolated by his race?
(a) To suck up to people.
(b) To make new friends.
(c) To isolate himself socially.
(d) To beat his classmates.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Ben Butler’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?

3. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When did DuBois discover that he lived ‘within the Veil’?

2. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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