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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose economic system resembles the economic system of the Black Belt?
(a) The North since the beginning of industrialism.
(b) Britain before the Labor Act.
(c) France since the advent of unions.
(d) The South before railroads.

2. What does DuBois say the nineteenth century is the first century of?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Peace.
(c) Sympathy.
(d) Understanding.

3. What does DuBois say the sorrow songs say about how life appeared to the slaves?
(a) That it was unjust.
(b) That it was joyful.
(c) That it was miserable.
(d) That it was intolerable.

4. How does DuBois characterize the revival preacher?
(a) A charlatan with great skills.
(b) The center and life of a community.
(c) A healer who is also a politician.
(d) The most unique figure in American culture.

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

6. How did being kicked out of school change John?
(a) It made him more easy-going.
(b) It made him more serious.
(c) It made him deathly afraid.
(d) It made him more irregular.

7. How many churches are there for every black family in America, according to DuBois?
(a) 1:125.
(b) 1:60.
(c) 1:250.
(d) 1:175.

8. What does DuBois say is the world’s most piteous thing?
(a) A childless father.
(b) An empty cradle.
(c) A childless mother.
(d) A dead child.

9. What does DuBois say is the relationship between the black church and the world at large?
(a) the church is a refuge.
(b) The church is a microcosm.
(c) The church is a model.
(d) The church is an alternative.

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

11. What was the first change in the Africans’ lives, according to DuBois?
(a) Transport on the slave ship.
(b) Seeing the murder of their parents by whites.
(c) Work on the cotton plantation.
(d) Being born into slavery.

12. What does DuBois ask the reader to do, in the Afterthought?
(a) Solve the color problem.
(b) Give the book to a friend.
(c) Keep the book in circulation.
(d) Talk about the color problem.

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

14. Where do warriors spring from, in the myth of the Golden Fleece?
(a) Amputated fingers.
(b) Dragon’s teeth.
(c) Warriors’ weapons.
(d) Mutilated body parts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What advantage do the farmers to rent for fixed money enjoy, according to DuBois?

2. Where does DuBois say leadership for blacks will have to come from?

3. What effect does DuBois say the sorrow songs had on him, the first time he heard one?

4. What is the chief form of relations between blacks and whites in the South, according to DuBois?

5. What does DuBois say the sorrow songs are silent about?

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