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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. What was the result of the Revolution of 1876?
2. How frequently did DuBois have to convince the parents about the value of book-learning?
3. What does DuBois say is the end that meat nourishes?
4. Who does DuBois say enjoyed the heyday when cotton production expanded in West Dougherty County?
5. What was Ben Butler’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kinds of things is DuBois interested in when he describes the Black Belt?
2. What is double-consciousness?
3. What vision does DuBois have of his equality with artists and thinkers?
4. What is the story of Atalanta, and how does DuBois apply it to the blacks in America?
5. Describe the labor problem facing freed blacks.
6. What does DuBois say is the problem surrounding Negro suffrage?
7. How does DuBois characterize the problem he is addressing, in the Forethought?
8. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?
9. Whose influence does DuBois say has been superseded by the new authority of money?
10. What are the four periods of Southern education DuBois describes from the end of the War to the present?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 2
Would you recommend The Souls of Black Folk? For what purposes would you recommend The Souls of Black Folk, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
Essay Topic 3
What is the role of debt in the lives of the blacks DuBois describes? Using examples from the text, describe the importance of debt as an obstacle to the self-fullment of blacks, and describe DuBois’ proposals for mitigating this problem.
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