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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 problem are the black farmers up against, that was not a problem during slavery?
2. Who did DuBois enjoy staying with the best?
3. What kind of work is DuBois doing, by portraying the inhabitants of Dougherty County?
4. What has the poet not kept, in the poem that starts Chapter 7?
5. What does DuBois propose as the solution to race prejudice?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks, and why did it prevail among its competing visions.
2. Whose influence does DuBois say has been superseded by the new authority of money?
3. What had happened to Josie in the years between DuBois’ teaching in her community and then his return?
4. What mistake does DuBois say the South has made in regard to educating the blacks?
5. What is double-consciousness?
6. Where does DuBois see the first evidence of blacks’ cultural contribution?
7. What does DuBois say is the problem surrounding Negro suffrage?
8. What was the effect of Field Order 15?
9. What kinds of things is DuBois interested in when he describes the Black Belt?
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
When is The Souls of Black Folk most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 2
How would you rewrite The Souls of Black Folk, if you were to adapt it and make it your own? What part of the book would you preserve? What part would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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