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

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

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

4. What time of his life did DuBois spend teaching in the South?
(a) The end of his youth.
(b) The first ten years of his maturity.
(c) The first ten years of his old age.
(d) Ten years after youth.

5. What most of the hundred hills of Atlanta crowned with, according to DuBois?
(a) Parks.
(b) Schools.
(c) Mansions.
(d) Factories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does DuBois say blacks have been getting from whites?

2. What does DuBois propose as the solution to race prejudice?

3. What does DuBois say is the effect the Gospel of Pay has on the Gospel of Work?

4. What does DuBois say he shared with the townspeople where he was teaching?

5. How does DuBois characterize life as a black man in America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problem did freed blacks pose for the Union army, and what solution was ultimately found?

2. What mistake does DuBois say the South has made in regard to educating the blacks?

3. What are the four periods of Southern education DuBois describes from the end of the War to the present?

4. What preliminary solution does DuBois offer to the split in black consciousness?

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

6. How does DuBois characterize Josie?

7. Sam Hose appears a number of times in The Souls of Black Folk. What was his story—what does his name represent?

8. What is double-consciousness?

9. Describe the growth of the population of blacks in Georgia from 1808 to the war.

10. How does DuBois describe the atmosphere at Fisk University?

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