The Souls of Black Folk Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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The Souls of Black Folk Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many blacks is W. E. B. DuBois accounting for in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) 1,300.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 1 million.

2. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?
(a) He says that he is superfluous.
(b) He says that he lives within the Veil.
(c) He says that life does not know him.
(d) He says that he is invisible.

3. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?
(a) Educate them.
(b) Send them north.
(c) Give them work.
(d) Send them home.

4. What position were blacks in, under the Freedmen’s Bureau?
(a) Students of democracy.
(b) Wards of the U.S. government.
(c) Children of each state.
(d) Workers in the American business.

5. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?
(a) The Negro Problem.
(b) The price of cotton.
(c) America’s foreign policy.
(d) The right of blacks to vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say is the Negro’s status as of his writing?

2. How many organizations does DuBois say coordinated with the Freedmen’s Bureau?

3. In what way does DuBois say blacks are torn?

4. What was Ben Butler’s solution to the escaped slaves showing up in his camp?

5. Where is truth, in the poem that opens Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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