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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 kind of pall hangs over the land of West Dougherty County?
2. What state is the Black Belt in?
3. What does DuBois say people were beginning to feel when Booker T. Washington began to lead?
4. What period does DuBois’ history cover, in Chapter 2?
5. Where was Josie when DuBois returned to the town of his first teaching assignment?
Short Essay Questions
1. What mistake does DuBois say the South has made in regard to educating the blacks?
2. How do absentee landlords affect life in the Black Belt?
3. What gift does DuBois say the North made to the blacks in the South after the war?
4. Where does DuBois see the first evidence of blacks’ cultural contribution?
5. Whose influence does DuBois say has been superseded by the new authority of money?
6. How does DuBois describe his schoolhouse?
7. What kinds of things is DuBois interested in when he describes the Black Belt?
8. Describe the labor problem facing freed blacks.
9. Sam Hose appears a number of times in The Souls of Black Folk. What was his story—what does his name represent?
10. Name some of the relief organizations who sent people and aid to the blacks in the South in cooperation with the Freedmen’s Bureau.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What kind of book is The Souls of Black Folk. Is it a history, a collection of essays, a meditation, a prophesy, is it travel writing? Where is it consistent, and where is it inconsistent? Using examples from the text, describe the genre of The Souls of Black Folk.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
What is the argument DuBois has with Booker T. Washington’s program for Negroes in America? Using examples from the text, describe DuBois’ priorities, and how Booker T. Washington’s plan differs from his. Would DuBois’ plan be likely to be more successful, on the whole?
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