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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 advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
2. Which was NOT one of the parties DuBois broke Southern society into, after the Civil War?
3. What was gained in the Atlanta Compromise?
4. What does DuBois say the land of the Black Belt is full of?
5. In what realm does DuBois want to work alongside whites?
Short Essay Questions
1. What had happened to Josie in the years between DuBois’ teaching in her community and then his return?
2. What gift does DuBois say the North made to the blacks in the South after the war?
3. What vision does DuBois have of his equality with artists and thinkers?
4. How does DuBois characterize Josie?
5. What problem did freed blacks pose for the Union army, and what solution was ultimately found?
6. Describe the labor problem facing freed blacks.
7. What was the effect of Field Order 15?
8. What kinds of things is DuBois interested in when he describes the Black Belt?
9. How does DuBois characterize the problem he is addressing, in the Forethought?
10. What flaws does DuBois see in Booker T. Washington’s program?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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