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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) The first ten years of his old age.
(b) The first ten years of his maturity.
(c) The end of his youth.
(d) Ten years after youth.

2. Who does DuBois say enjoyed the heyday when cotton production expanded in West Dougherty County?
(a) The Northern merchants.
(b) The nouveau riche.
(c) The slave traders.
(d) The Negroes.

3. Who was the founder of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) Eaton.
(b) Pierce.
(c) Cameron.
(d) Lincoln.

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

5. What traits does DuBois say are associated with the plantation Negro?
(a) Sulky laziness.
(b) Joyful abandon.
(c) Shiftlessness.
(d) Scheming wiliness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say he shared with the townspeople where he was teaching?

2. How frequently did DuBois have to convince the parents about the value of book-learning?

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

4. How many bales of cotton went to London from the Black Belt by 1860?

5. What Indian tribe’s land is Atlanta in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?

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