1. How many blacks is W. E. B. DuBois accounting for in The Souls of Black Folk?
1 million.
2. What is the central problem DuBois addresses?
Education.
3. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?
He says that he lives within the Veil.
4. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?
Rest.
5. What question does DuBois say people do not talk about?
The Negro Problem.
6. Where did DuBois says that he learned that he was black?
In school.
7. What was DuBois’ solution to feeling isolated by his race?
To beat his classmates.
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