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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does DuBois say might change how the Veil sits on the American blacks?
(a) It might dissolve.
(b) Someone might one day lift it.
(c) It might be torn away.
(d) Someone could turn it into a funeral shroud for racism.

2. How does DuBois compare the plantation houses in Dougherty County with plantation houses in Virginia, in the time of slavery?
(a) More aristocratic.
(b) More elaborate.
(c) More practical.
(d) Less imposing.

3. What does DuBois say his first feeling for his son was?
(a) He loved him immediately.
(b) He was afraid for him.
(c) He did not love him.
(d) He was terrified by him.

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

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

6. What does DuBois say we must do if we want to know about the color line?
(a) Read about the history of the South.
(b) Read the laws that allowed slavery to happen.
(c) Meet people first-hand.
(d) Understand the influence of supply and demand.

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

8. What has black religion contributed to, in DuBois' account?
(a) American middle-class religion.
(b) American political life.
(c) American entertainment.
(d) Poor white religion.

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

10. What does DuBois say is the keynote of the Black Belt?
(a) Bitterness.
(b) Training.
(c) Hope.
(d) Debt.

11. What does DuBois say should be the purpose of all striving in the twentieth century?
(a) That the fittest survive.
(b) That the good, beautiful and true triumph.
(c) That justice reign on earth.
(d) That the meek inherit the earth.

12. What groups almost never live close to each other?
(a) The worst of blacks and whites.
(b) The best of blacks and whites.
(c) The black and white tradesmen.
(d) The poor black and white farmers.

13. How does DuBois characterize the message that is contained in the sorrow songs?
(a) Hidden.
(b) Veiled.
(c) Mystical.
(d) Obvious.

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

15. How is Chapter 11, On the Passing of the Firstborn, different from the other chapters?
(a) It is much more reassuring.
(b) It is much more guarded.
(c) It is much more personal.
(d) It is much more bitter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose economic system resembles the economic system of the Black Belt?

2. How does DuBois characterize John Jones?

3. What kind of explanation does DuBois endeavor to provide, of the color line in the South?

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

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

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