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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 is the second thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?
2. What does DuBois want to teach a thinking man to do?
3. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?
4. What is the afterthought to this thought, in DuBois' account?
5. What Indian tribe’s land is Atlanta in?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the effect of Field Order 15?
2. Describe the growth of the population of blacks in Georgia from 1808 to the war.
3. What preliminary solution does DuBois offer to the split in black consciousness?
4. What flaws does DuBois see in Booker T. Washington’s program?
5. What was Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks, and why did it prevail among its competing visions.
6. What mistake does DuBois say the South has made in regard to educating the blacks?
7. Name some of the relief organizations who sent people and aid to the blacks in the South in cooperation with the Freedmen’s Bureau.
8. What ideal would W. E. B. DuBois have American blacks follow?
9. What kinds of things is DuBois interested in when he describes the Black Belt?
10. What had happened to Josie in the years between DuBois’ teaching in her community and then his return?
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
What is the role of the Sorrow Songs in DuBois’ vision of how American culture could evolve over time? Using examples from the text, particularly from the last chapter, assess the importance of the sorrow song in either removing the Veil or making it bearable.
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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