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

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

3. How long did DuBois’ son live before dying?
(a) 26 months.
(b) 22 months.
(c) 14 months.
(d) 18 months.

4. What does DuBois say the black church antedates?
(a) The home.
(b) Emancipation.
(c) The black family.
(d) Slavery.

5. Why did John kill the white John, son of the Judge?
(a) For groping his sister.
(b) For theft.
(c) For an insult.
(d) For pure spite.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What aspect of his son did DuBois consider an evil omen?

3. How does DuBois characterize the sorrow songs?

4. How does DuBois characterize John Jones?

5. Where do warriors spring from, in the myth of the Golden Fleece?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is DuBois’ relation to death, in Chapter 11?

2. What did the Fisk Jubilee Singers accomplish?

3. What is the reason for this tragic anecdote, as the penultimate chapter, coming on the heels of the previous, more triumphant chapter, as it does?

4. What took John so long to go home?

5. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Despair?

6. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Doubt?

7. How has the loss of the plantation life resulted in the isolation of black and white cultures?

8. How does DuBois characterize the Music in the Southern Negro revival meeting?

9. How does DuBois characterize the Preacher in the Southern Negro revival meeting?

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

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