View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does DuBois say leadership for blacks will have to come from?
(a) Foreigners.
(b) The blacks themselves.
(c) The old Southern aristocracy.
(d) Northerners.

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

3. What is the dominant crop in the land DuBois describes?
(a) Corn.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Vegetables.
(d) Cotton.

4. What does DuBois say was the Negro’s first religion?
(a) Paganism.
(b) Nature worship.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Voodoo.

5. What does DuBois say is the characteristic trend of his times?
(a) The development of labor-saving technologies.
(b) Contact of civilized and primitive people.
(c) The vanishing industrial base of the South.
(d) The expansion of capitalism through the globe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of cabin does DuBois say is the exception the rule?

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

4. How has Texas affected farming in the Black Belt?

5. What does DuBois say blacks typically see in the area of law and justice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is DuBois’ final hope for his book?

2. How does DuBois characterize the Frenzy the Southern Negro revival meeting?

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

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

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

6. What was the Port Royal experiment?

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

8. How does DuBois describe the one-room cabin most blacks live in, in Dougherty county?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 816 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample