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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 does DuBois say people have valued too highly, in the most recent period of Reconstruction?
2. How does DuBois characterize the war’s effect on Atlanta?
3. How does DuBois characterize Hippomenes?
4. Why did Ben fight with Sam Carlon?
5. What does DuBois want to teach a thinking man to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does DuBois say is the problem surrounding Negro suffrage?
2. Name some of the relief organizations who sent people and aid to the blacks in the South in cooperation with the Freedmen’s Bureau.
3. What does DuBois say is the result of the Freedmen’s Bureau’s work?
4. Describe the labor problem facing freed blacks.
5. Sam Hose appears a number of times in The Souls of Black Folk. What was his story—what does his name represent?
6. When did DuBois discover that he lived ‘within the Veil’?
7. What kinds of things is DuBois interested in when he describes the Black Belt?
8. What mistake does DuBois say the South has made in regard to educating the blacks?
9. What debt does DuBois say the blacks are owed?
10. What gift does DuBois say the North made to the blacks in the South after the war?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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.
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