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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Alexander Crummell born?
(a) The Great Compromise.
(b) The Missouri Compromise.
(c) The Atlanta Compromise.
(d) The signing of the Constitution.

2. What does DuBois say his wife had had to do, to produce their son?
(a) Be reborn.
(b) Liberate herself.
(c) Sleep with death.
(d) Allow herself to be enslaved.

3. Whose economic system resembles the economic system of the Black Belt?
(a) The South before railroads.
(b) France since the advent of unions.
(c) The North since the beginning of industrialism.
(d) Britain before the Labor Act.

4. What does DuBois say politics depends on?
(a) Purification of the ballot.
(b) Safety of voters.
(c) Education of the electorate.
(d) Integration of communities.

5. What does DuBois say is the result of the geographical separation of races?
(a) The races are preserved from each other’s flaws.
(b) No one can see the whole picture.
(c) Typically the best of each race comes in contact with the other.
(d) The races mingle more socially.

6. What was the Port Royal experiment?
(a) Blacks were given abandoned plantations to run.
(b) Northerners adopted slaves to get them out of the South.
(c) Blacks were given arms to fight against the South.
(d) Northerners came to teach blacks during the war.

7. Where was John Jones from?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Altamaha.
(c) Chattahoochee.
(d) Nashville.

8. How does DuBois characterize the message that is contained in the sorrow songs?
(a) Veiled.
(b) Mystical.
(c) Hidden.
(d) Obvious.

9. How has the price of cotton affected the Black Belt?
(a) It has stabilized, allowing farmers to invest.
(b) It has been unstable, making farmers conservative.
(c) It has plunged, impoverishing cotton Farmers.
(d) It is increased, bringing prosperity.

10. Where did Alexander Crummell finally practice as a minister?
(a) New York.
(b) Providence.
(c) London.
(d) Philadelphia.

11. How long does it take John to come home?
(a) Two years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Four years.
(d) One year.

12. What does DuBois say the sorrow songs say about how life appeared to the slaves?
(a) That it was unjust.
(b) That it was miserable.
(c) That it was joyful.
(d) That it was intolerable.

13. What does DuBois say the nineteenth century is the first century of?
(a) Peace.
(b) Sympathy.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Understanding.

14. What role does DuBois say the church plays in black culture?
(a) Social center.
(b) Center of corruption.
(c) Intellectual center.
(d) Financial center.

15. How did being kicked out of school change John?
(a) It made him more easy-going.
(b) It made him deathly afraid.
(c) It made him more irregular.
(d) It made him more serious.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the son’s relation to the Veil?

2. What does DuBois say is the relationship between the black church and the world at large?

3. What does DuBois say we must do if we want to know about the color line?

4. How is Chapter 11, On the Passing of the Firstborn, different from the other chapters?

5. What is the chief form of relations between blacks and whites in the South, according to DuBois?

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