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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. In what way does DuBois say blacks are torn?
3. What does DuBois say he shared with the townspeople where he was teaching?
4. What does DuBois propose as the solution to race prejudice?
5. In what realm does DuBois want to work alongside whites?
Short Essay Questions
1. What flaws does DuBois see in Booker T. Washington’s program?
2. How does DuBois characterize the intersection of blackness and Americanness?
3. What was the Atlanta Compromise?
4. What was Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks, and why did it prevail among its competing visions.
5. What debt does DuBois say the blacks are owed?
6. What had happened to Josie in the years between DuBois’ teaching in her community and then his return?
7. Whose influence does DuBois say has been superseded by the new authority of money?
8. What preliminary solution does DuBois offer to the split in black consciousness?
9. What mistake does DuBois say the South has made in regard to educating the blacks?
10. When did DuBois discover that he lived ‘within the Veil’?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what ways is The Souls of Black Folk relevant to contemporary readers? What contemporary issues are in play in the book, and how would the book contribute to contemporary discussion? Cite specific discussions from contemporary sources, and cite specific instances from the book, that describe its contemporary relevance.
Essay Topic 2
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 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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