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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 does the person who wants to be free have to do, according to the poem that opens chapter 3?
(a) Stop the fight.
(b) Strike a blow.
(c) Withdraw his fist.
(d) Receive a blow.

2. Who made the final word on policy regarding escaped slaves arriving in Union Army lines?
(a) Cameron.
(b) Fremont.
(c) Halleck.
(d) Butler.

3. When were the slaves emancipated in the U.S.?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1860.

4. What was the result of the Revolution of 1876?
(a) The Fourteenth Amendment.
(b) The emancipation of slaves.
(c) The suppression of black votes.
(d) Armed conflict.

5. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
(a) Pay us for freeing you.
(b) Accept your submission.
(c) Rise to your potential.
(d) Wait seven generations for full equality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was given up in the Atlanta Compromise?

2. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?

3. What was gained in the Atlanta Compromise?

4. What was at the heart of Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks?

5. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ideal would W. E. B. DuBois have American blacks follow?

2. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?

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

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

5. How does DuBois characterize Josie?

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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