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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hippomenes do to win the race and marry Atalanta?
(a) Tie her down with golden thread.
(b) Divert the racecourse.
(c) Distract her with golden apples.
(d) Set a trap and capture her.

2. What is the second thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?
(a) That race is a harmless construct.
(b) That Negroes are not human.
(c) That whites are usurpers.
(d) That patience will be rewarded.

3. What does DuBois say he shared with the townspeople where he was teaching?
(a) A common consciousness.
(b) A deep hostility.
(c) A friendly antagonism.
(d) A similar problem.

4. What kind of work is DuBois doing, by portraying the inhabitants of Dougherty County?
(a) Anthropology.
(b) Portraiture
(c) History.
(d) Zoology.

5. How does DuBois characterize the Freedmen’s Bureau’s role in assisting the blacks in the South?
(a) Powerless.
(b) Inconsequential.
(c) One of many.
(d) Central.

Short Answer Questions

1. How frequently did DuBois have to convince the parents about the value of book-learning?

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

3. What was at the heart of Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks?

4. What does DuBois invoke when eh calls Atlanta the new Lachesis?

5. What is the central problem DuBois addresses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ideal would W. E. B. DuBois have American blacks follow?

2. What does DuBois say is the problem surrounding Negro suffrage?

3. What was Booker T. Washington’s program for blacks, and why did it prevail among its competing visions.

4. What had happened to Josie in the years between DuBois’ teaching in her community and then his return?

5. What was the Atlanta Compromise?

6. How do absentee landlords affect life in the Black Belt?

7. Whose influence does DuBois say has been superseded by the new authority of money?

8. How does DuBois characterize Josie?

9. What kinds of things is DuBois interested in when he describes the Black Belt?

10. What are the three thoughts DuBois describes at the beginning of Chapter 6—and the three afterthoughts that follow them?

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