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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?
2. How does the myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes conclude?
3. What was Fremont’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?
4. Who has come to embody the ideals of American blacks recently, according to DuBois?
5. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is double-consciousness?
2. What debt does DuBois say the blacks are owed?
3. What gift does DuBois say the North made to the blacks in the South after the war?
4. When did DuBois discover that he lived ‘within the Veil’?
5. What had happened to Josie in the years between DuBois’ teaching in her community and then his return?
6. How does DuBois characterize Josie?
7. How do absentee landlords affect life in the Black Belt?
8. What was the Atlanta Compromise?
9. Whose influence does DuBois say has been superseded by the new authority of money?
10. Name some of the relief organizations who sent people and aid to the blacks in the South in cooperation with the Freedmen’s Bureau.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How would you rewrite The Souls of Black Folk, if you were to adapt it and make it your own? What part of the book would you preserve? What part would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.
Essay Topic 2
Who is the audience for The Souls of Black Folk? What is the ideal reader for The Souls of Black Folk likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 3
Identify the most important plot points in the development of The Souls of Black Folk. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
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