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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. Who does DuBois say does not wince when he sits with him?
2. What does DuBois say is the problem of the twentieth century?
3. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?
4. How does DuBois characterize the Burkes’ home, when he returns to their area?
5. What was the result of the Revolution of 1876?
Short Essay Questions
1. What preliminary solution does DuBois offer to the split in black consciousness?
2. What problem did freed blacks pose for the Union army, and what solution was ultimately found?
3. What was the Atlanta Compromise?
4. What is the story of Atalanta, and how does DuBois apply it to the blacks in America?
5. What was Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks, and why did it prevail among its competing visions.
6. What debt does DuBois say the blacks are owed?
7. How does DuBois characterize the problem he is addressing, in the Forethought?
8. Sam Hose appears a number of times in The Souls of Black Folk. What was his story—what does his name represent?
9. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?
10. What ideal would W. E. B. DuBois have American blacks follow?
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
Would you recommend The Souls of Black Folk? For what purposes would you recommend The Souls of Black Folk, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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