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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of people does DuBois say the sorrow songs come from?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Long-suffering.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Indomitable.

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

4. What does DuBois say blacks typically see in the area of law and justice?
(a) Humiliation.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Profitability.
(d) Opportunity.

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

6. What kind of cabin does DuBois say is the exception the rule?
(a) The ramshackle.
(b) The scrupulously neat.
(c) The habitable.
(d) The filthy.

7. How does DuBois characterize the process of land valuation in the Black Belt?
(a) Idiosyncratic.
(b) Mathematical.
(c) Standardized.
(d) Scientific.

8. What does DuBois say might change how the Veil sits on the American blacks?
(a) It might dissolve.
(b) It might be torn away.
(c) Someone could turn it into a funeral shroud for racism.
(d) Someone might one day lift it.

9. Why does DuBois say blacks in the South abandoned politics?
(a) Without a fair judiciary, politics were senseless.
(b) There was too much violent opposition.
(c) The whites stole from them regardless of politics.
(d) There were so many scandals it became disreputable.

10. How is Chapter 11, On the Passing of the Firstborn, different from the other chapters?
(a) It is much more personal.
(b) It is much more guarded.
(c) It is much more reassuring.
(d) It is much more bitter.

11. What is the outcome of John’s school in his hometown?
(a) The Judge closes it.
(b) It merges with Georgia University.
(c) It becomes a regional model.
(d) It is set on fire.

12. How does DuBois characterize the music blacks make at a revival?
(a) Exuberant.
(b) Invigorating.
(c) Infectious.
(d) Plaintive

13. 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.

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

15. Where does DuBois say he met Alexander Crummell for the first time?
(a) At a Wilberforce commencement.
(b) When he was teaching in Tennessee.
(c) At Fisk.
(d) At Tuskegee

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Alexander Crummell born?

2. What is the ratio of blacks to whites in the Black Belt?

3. Where does DuBois say Alexander Crummell came from?

4. What claim does DuBois make for Negro music?

5. What art form comes most directly from the Sorrow Song?

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