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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was given up in the Atlanta Compromise?
(a) The vote.
(b) Money.
(c) Legal rights.
(d) Territory.

3. How long ago did this teaching take place, from the moment of DuBois’ writing?
(a) Six months.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Seventeen years.
(d) Four years.

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

5. How does DuBois characterize the Burkes’ home, when he returns to their area?
(a) Same as it was.
(b) Much improved.
(c) Rough but prosperous.
(d) Shoddy and failing.

6. What does DuBois say the Negro Problem is a test of?
(a) American cities.
(b) American churches.
(c) American bureaucracy.
(d) American ideals.

7. What period does DuBois’ history cover, in Chapter 2?
(a) 1808 to 1860.
(b) 1890 to the present.
(c) 1861 to 1872.
(d) 1860 to 1890.

8. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?
(a) Wait seven generations for full equality.
(b) Pay us for freeing you.
(c) Rise to your potential.
(d) Accept your submission.

9. What does DuBois propose to measure a bushel of wheat against, at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Black women’s tears.
(b) Lynched black men.
(c) Heartfuls of sorrow.
(d) Black blood.

10. Which of these things did Booker T. Washington NOT ask American Negroes to give up?
(a) Political power.
(b) Representation in taxation.
(c) Insistence on civil rights.
(d) Higher education.

11. What is the water crying for, in the poem that opens Chapter 1?
(a) Justice.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Rest.
(d) God.

12. What was DuBois’ solution to feeling isolated by his race?
(a) To isolate himself socially.
(b) To make new friends.
(c) To beat his classmates.
(d) To suck up to people.

13. How many bales of cotton went to London from the Black Belt by 1860?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 2,000.

14. What does the person who wants to be free have to do, according to the poem that opens chapter 3?
(a) Stop the fight.
(b) Receive a blow.
(c) Strike a blow.
(d) Withdraw his fist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Halleck’s position on runaway slaves?

2. What conclusion does DuBois come to, regarding color-prejudice?

3. What does the first stream of thought call for, which DuBois describes in Chapter 6?

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

5. What does DuBois say is the problem of the twentieth century?

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