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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How did being kicked out of school change John?
(a) It made him deathly afraid.
(b) It made him more easy-going.
(c) It made him more serious.
(d) It made him more irregular.
2. In what way does DuBois say his son was fortunate?
(a) He was better loved than anyone else in DuBois’ family.
(b) He never learned language in order to curse being born.
(c) He never had to contend with a world that would see him as inferior.
(d) He got to experience the sweetest part of life.
3. How does DuBois characterize the process of land valuation in the Black Belt?
(a) Standardized.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Idiosyncratic.
(d) Mathematical.
4. What does DuBois say the nineteenth century is the first century of?
(a) Peace.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Sympathy.
5. Where did Alexander Crummell finally practice as a minister?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) New York.
(c) London.
(d) Providence.
6. What was the Port Royal experiment?
(a) Northerners came to teach blacks during the war.
(b) Blacks were given abandoned plantations to run.
(c) Blacks were given arms to fight against the South.
(d) Northerners adopted slaves to get them out of the South.
7. Where do warriors spring from, in the myth of the Golden Fleece?
(a) Warriors’ weapons.
(b) Amputated fingers.
(c) Dragon’s teeth.
(d) Mutilated body parts.
8. Where is DuBois originally from?
(a) The Alleghenies.
(b) The White Mountains.
(c) The Berkshires.
(d) The Appalachians.
9. What is the dominant crop in the land DuBois describes?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Corn.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Vegetables.
10. Why is John kicked out of school for a semester?
(a) For debt.
(b) For irregular work.
(c) For corrupting his fellow students.
(d) For gambling.
11. How does DuBois characterize the music blacks make at a revival?
(a) Infectious.
(b) Plaintive
(c) Invigorating.
(d) Exuberant.
12. Which is NOT one of the components of the Southern Negro Revival?
(a) The preacher.
(b) The music.
(c) The frenzy.
(d) The choir.
13. What is the chief form of relations between blacks and whites in the South, according to DuBois?
(a) Politics.
(b) Physical proximity.
(c) Religion.
(d) Economics.
14. What does DuBois say his wife had had to do, to produce their son?
(a) Sleep with death.
(b) Allow herself to be enslaved.
(c) Be reborn.
(d) Liberate herself.
15. Where does DuBois say Alexander Crummell came from?
(a) The pulsing Now.
(b) The indistinguishable ether.
(c) The gray To-come.
(d) The crimson Past.
Short Answer Questions
1. What advantage do the farmers to rent for fixed money enjoy, according to DuBois?
2. How many Negro churches were there in the 1890 census?
3. What does DuBois say might change how the Veil sits on the American blacks?
4. What does DuBois say is the relationship between the black church and the world at large?
5. What news did DuBois get, at the beginning of the chapter?
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