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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many churches are there for every black family in America, according to DuBois?
2. Where does DuBois say leadership for blacks will have to come from?
3. What kind of people does DuBois say the sorrow songs come from?
4. What is the dominant crop in the land DuBois describes?
5. Where does the image of the Golden Fleece come from?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Hate?
2. How does DuBois describe the one-room cabin most blacks live in, in Dougherty county?
3. What is the black farmer’s relationship with the white merchant, according to DuBois?
4. What took John so long to go home?
5. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Despair?
6. How does DuBois characterize the Frenzy the Southern Negro revival meeting?
7. How has the loss of the plantation life resulted in the isolation of black and white cultures?
8. What did the Fisk Jubilee Singers accomplish?
9. How does DuBois characterize the Music in the Southern Negro revival meeting?
10. How has the price of cotton affected the Black Belt?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What topics would you like to research further, after reading The Souls of Black Folk. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on The Souls of Black Folk.
Essay Topic 2
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 3
Identify the most important plot points in the development of The Souls of Black Folk. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
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