The Souls of Black Folk Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Souls of Black Folk Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second thought DuBois describes in Chapter 6?

2. In the present moment of DuBois’ writing, what is the state of the society that was built on cotton production in its heyday?

3. What lightened DuBois’ teacher training?

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

5. How does DuBois characterize the slave kindergarten that was raised in West Dougherty County?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What debt does DuBois say the blacks are owed?

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

4. When did DuBois discover that he lived ‘within the Veil’?

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

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

7. How does DuBois characterize the intersection of blackness and Americanness?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

DuBois uses the Veil in a number of ways, some of which are contradictory. How does the Veil work, in The Souls of Black Folk. How does the image of the Veil measure the status and progress of blacks in America, according to W. E. B. DuBois?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the most important plot points in the development of The Souls of Black Folk. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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