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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 progress.
(a) Often beautiful.
(b) Potentially devastating.
(c) Surprisingly quiet.
(d) Necessarily ugly.

2. Who does DuBois say once embodied the ideals of American blacks?
(a) Businessman and customer.
(b) Soldier and senator.
(c) Mother and child.
(d) Preacher and teacher.

3. What does DuBois want to teach a thinking man to do?
(a) Work.
(b) Think.
(c) Practice an art.
(d) Prosper.

4. How does DuBois characterize the war’s effect on Atlanta?
(a) An iron baptism.
(b) A shedding and emergence.
(c) A rebirth.
(d) A trial by fire.

5. To whom does the burden of the Negro Problem belong, in DuBois' account?
(a) The world.
(b) The South.
(c) The slave owners.
(d) The nation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?

2. What does DuBois say people have valued too highly, in the most recent period of Reconstruction?

3. What are black and white doing together in the poem that opens Chapter 5?

4. What ideal does DuBois say has vanished?

5. What kinds of schools were blacks first given, after the Civil War?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problem did freed blacks pose for the Union army, and what solution was ultimately found?

2. What was the Atlanta Compromise?

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

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

5. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?

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

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

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

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

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

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