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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 kind of work is DuBois doing, by portraying the inhabitants of Dougherty County?
3. Where did DuBois says that he learned that he was black?
4. What does DuBois want to teach a thinking man to do?
5. Which of these things did Booker T. Washington NOT ask American Negroes to give up?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the Atlanta Compromise?
2. How does DuBois describe the atmosphere at Fisk University?
3. How does DuBois characterize the problem he is addressing, in the Forethought?
4. What gift does DuBois say the North made to the blacks in the South after the war?
5. How does DuBois characterize the intersection of blackness and Americanness?
6. What does DuBois say is the result of the Freedmen’s Bureau’s work?
7. What vision does DuBois have of his equality with artists and thinkers?
8. What are the four periods of Southern education DuBois describes from the end of the War to the present?
9. How do absentee landlords affect life in the Black Belt?
10. What does DuBois say is the problem surrounding Negro suffrage?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Outrage over slavery is almost inescapable, but DuBois largely avoids it. Still, he has to include it in some way. Using examples from the text, describe how DuBois both includes and proposes to reconcile the powerful feelings that are associated with the history of black exploitation in the South.
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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