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. What is John humming while he waits for the police?
(a) Lohengrin.
(b) The Star Spangled Banner.
(c) Carmen.
(d) The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

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

3. What does DuBois say politics depends on?
(a) Safety of voters.
(b) Purification of the ballot.
(c) Integration of communities.
(d) Education of the electorate.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is John kicked out of school for a semester?

2. What does DuBois say is the tragedy of the age?

3. What is the outcome of John’s school in his hometown?

4. How many Negro churches were there in the 1890 census?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the Fisk Jubilee Singers accomplish?

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

5. How does DuBois say Christianity appealed to the blacks in slavery?

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

7. How has the price of cotton affected the Black Belt?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 871 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample