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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 aspect of his son did DuBois consider an evil omen?
(a) Blue eyes.
(b) Six fingers.
(c) A cough.
(d) Gold-tinted hair.

2. Where is DuBois originally from?
(a) The White Mountains.
(b) The Appalachians.
(c) The Alleghenies.
(d) The Berkshires.

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

4. What news did DuBois get, at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) That his wife had died.
(b) That his son was sick.
(c) That his son had died.
(d) That his son had been born.

5. How has the price of cotton affected the Black Belt?
(a) It has been unstable, making farmers conservative.
(b) It has plunged, impoverishing cotton Farmers.
(c) It has stabilized, allowing farmers to invest.
(d) It is increased, bringing prosperity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say his wife had had to do, to produce their son?

2. What is the problem the poet complains of in the poem that opens Chapter 9?

3. What does DuBois say we cannot hope for, not for some generations?

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

5. Where was John Jones from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John Jones change on account of his semester away from school?

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

3. Why does DuBois think that his son might have been fortunate to die young?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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