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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are black and white doing together in the poem that opens Chapter 5?
(a) Working.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Rising.
(d) Sinking.

2. What conclusion does DuBois come to, regarding color-prejudice?
(a) It is a relic of a previous time.
(b) It is a decision men make.
(c) It is the product of conditions.
(d) It is part of human nature.

3. Who did DuBois enjoy staying with the best?
(a) The Lawrences.
(b) The Dowell's.
(c) The Eddingses.
(d) Josie’s.

4. What does DuBois say is the end that meat nourishes?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Religious feeling.
(c) Political power.
(d) Self-realization.

5. Where did DuBois says that he learned that he was black?
(a) In his house.
(b) In the womb.
(c) In school.
(d) In the crib.

6. What is it that makes the shame in the poem that opens Chapter 6?
(a) The body restraining the soul.
(b) Death cutting life short.
(c) The mind living in imagination.
(d) The heart bursting from vexation.

7. What does DuBois say is the effect the Gospel of Pay has on the Gospel of Work?
(a) It ennobles it.
(b) It uplifts it.
(c) It befouls it.
(d) It distracts from it.

8. What role does DuBois say black music plays in American culture?
(a) He says that it is more European than American.
(b) He says that it is an African rhythm in American life.
(c) He says that it is the true American music.
(d) He says that it is just beginning to emerge.

9. In what realm does DuBois want to work alongside whites?
(a) The free market.
(b) The international stage.
(c) The kingdom of culture.
(d) The public sphere.

10. What was Frederick Douglas’ program for advancing the Negro?
(a) Submission.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Self-assertion.
(d) Accommodation.

11. How does the myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes conclude?
(a) With profanation.
(b) With consecration.
(c) With desertion.
(d) With sanctification.

12. When did ‘the fire of African freedom’ cease to burn in American’ slaves’ veins, according to DuBois?
(a) 1750.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1870.

13. What does DuBois say is the Negro’s status as of his writing?
(a) Employed but not prospering.
(b) Free but not educated.
(c) Educated but not well employed.
(d) Not free.

14. Booker T. Washington’s ascendancy is the most remarkable event in American race relations since when, according to DuBois?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1808.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1865.

15. What does DuBois say you must pass through on the way to the Temple of Knowledge?
(a) The Gates of Toil.
(b) The Valley of the Shadow of Death.
(c) The Door of Self-knowledge.
(d) The Sea of Doubt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What most of the hundred hills of Atlanta crowned with, according to DuBois?

2. What explanation does DuBois make for the laziness of the blacks he meets?

3. What does DuBois say people have valued too highly, in the most recent period of Reconstruction?

4. What kind of work is DuBois doing, by portraying the inhabitants of Dougherty County?

5. What does the person who wants to be free have to do, according to the poem that opens chapter 3?

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