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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 Fremont’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?
2. How many blacks is W. E. B. DuBois accounting for in The Souls of Black Folk?
3. What does DuBois say is the Negro’s status as of his writing?
4. Where has Booker T. Washington been most criticized, in DuBois' account?
5. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?
Short Essay Questions
1. What preliminary solution does DuBois offer to the split in black consciousness?
2. What was the Atlanta Compromise?
3. How do absentee landlords affect life in the Black Belt?
4. What does DuBois say is the problem surrounding Negro suffrage?
5. What problem did freed blacks pose for the Union army, and what solution was ultimately found?
6. Describe the growth of the population of blacks in Georgia from 1808 to the war.
7. What does DuBois say is the result of the Freedmen’s Bureau’s work?
8. Whose influence does DuBois say has been superseded by the new authority of money?
9. What was Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks, and why did it prevail among its competing visions.
10. What mistake does DuBois say the South has made in regard to educating the blacks?
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
Evaluate your own reading of The Souls of Black Folk—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 3
What is the argument DuBois has with Booker T. Washington’s program for Negroes in America? Using examples from the text, describe DuBois’ priorities, and how Booker T. Washington’s plan differs from his. Would DuBois’ plan be likely to be more successful, on the whole?
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