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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. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?
2. What was Fremont’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?
3. What was Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?
4. How does DuBois characterize progress.
5. Who made the final word on policy regarding escaped slaves arriving in Union Army lines?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did DuBois discover that he lived ‘within the Veil’?
2. What had happened to Josie in the years between DuBois’ teaching in her community and then his return?
3. How does DuBois characterize the intersection of blackness and Americanness?
4. What is the story of Atalanta, and how does DuBois apply it to the blacks in America?
5. Sam Hose appears a number of times in The Souls of Black Folk. What was his story—what does his name represent?
6. What preliminary solution does DuBois offer to the split in black consciousness?
7. What debt does DuBois say the blacks are owed?
8. What mistake does DuBois say the South has made in regard to educating the blacks?
9. What are the three thoughts DuBois describes at the beginning of Chapter 6—and the three afterthoughts that follow them?
10. What was the Atlanta Compromise?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
What is the argument DuBois has with Booker T. Washington’s program for Negroes in America? Using examples from the text, describe DuBois’ priorities, and how Booker T. Washington’s plan differs from his. Would DuBois’ plan be likely to be more successful, on the whole?
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