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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 the land of the Black Belt is full of?

2. How does DuBois characterize progress.

3. How does DuBois characterize Hippomenes?

4. What is the central problem DuBois addresses?

5. Which was NOT one of the parties DuBois broke Southern society into, after the Civil War?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does DuBois say is the problem surrounding Negro suffrage?

2. What preliminary solution does DuBois offer to the split in black consciousness?

3. What was the Atlanta Compromise?

4. What mistake does DuBois say the South has made in regard to educating the blacks?

5. Describe the labor problem facing freed blacks.

6. What kinds of things is DuBois interested in when he describes the Black Belt?

7. How does DuBois describe the atmosphere at Fisk University?

8. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?

9. Where does DuBois see the first evidence of blacks’ cultural contribution?

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

What kind of book is The Souls of Black Folk. Is it a history, a collection of essays, a meditation, a prophesy, is it travel writing? Where is it consistent, and where is it inconsistent? Using examples from the text, describe the genre of The Souls of Black Folk.

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

DuBois uses the Veil in a number of ways, some of which are contradictory. How does the Veil work, in The Souls of Black Folk. How does the image of the Veil measure the status and progress of blacks in America, according to W. E. B. DuBois?

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