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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does DuBois say tenant farmers do not improve their land?
(a) They want to undermine their landlords.
(b) They have no incentive.
(c) They have no money.
(d) They want to destroy it.

2. How does DuBois say the Africans placed slavery within their spiritual schema?
(a) As punishment for original sin.
(b) As the first necessary step in their ascent.
(c) As a triumph of evil forces.
(d) As retribution for ancient wrongs.

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

4. What did the whites in John’s hometown say about him going to school?
(a) It would corrupt him.
(b) He would never return.
(c) It would spoil him.
(d) It would help the community.

5. What does DuBois say the sorrow songs grope toward?
(a) Rest.
(b) Justice.
(c) freedom.
(d) Return home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the process of land valuation in the Black Belt?

2. Why is John kicked out of school for a semester?

3. What is being brought, in the poem that opens Chapter 13?

4. Which is NOT one of the components of the Southern Negro Revival?

5. What did Alexander Crummell doubt when he was visited by the third temptation, of Doubt?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does this chapter differ from the previous chapters?

2. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Hate?

3. What does DuBois say is the tragedy of people like Alexander Crummell?

4. What was the Port Royal experiment?

5. What is the role of music in the coming of John?

6. How are the physical dwellings of blacks and whites related, in DuBois' account?

7. What took John so long to go home?

8. What vision does DuBois have, of the blacks’ importance in the world economy?

9. What vision does DuBois have, of a future for American blacks?

10. What is the black farmer’s relationship with the white merchant, according to DuBois?

(see the answer keys)

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