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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 does DuBois say we cannot hope for, not for some generations?

2. What is the chief form of relations between blacks and whites in the South, according to DuBois?

3. What does DuBois say politics depends on?

4. Where does the image of the Golden Fleece come from?

5. Where do warriors spring from, in the myth of the Golden Fleece?

Short Essay Questions

1. What vision does DuBois have, of a future for American blacks?

2. What is DuBois’ final hope for his book?

3. What is the role of music in the coming of John?

4. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Doubt?

5. What is DuBois’ relation to death, in Chapter 11?

6. How has the price of cotton affected the Black Belt?

7. What did the Fisk Jubilee Singers accomplish?

8. What is the reason for this tragic anecdote, as the penultimate chapter, coming on the heels of the previous, more triumphant chapter, as it does?

9. What does DuBois say is at the heart of the sorrow songs?

10. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Despair?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of The Souls of Black Folk. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of debt in the lives of the blacks DuBois describes? Using examples from the text, describe the importance of debt as an obstacle to the self-fullment of blacks, and describe DuBois’ proposals for mitigating this problem.

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