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

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

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

5. What is the outcome of John’s school in his hometown?
(a) It becomes a regional model.
(b) The Judge closes it.
(c) It merges with Georgia University.
(d) It is set on fire.

6. What art form comes most directly from the Sorrow Song?
(a) Dixieland.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Blues.
(d) Ragtime.

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

8. 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 personal.
(c) It is much more guarded.
(d) It is much more bitter.

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

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

11. Where does DuBois say Alexander Crummell came from?
(a) The crimson Past.
(b) The pulsing Now.
(c) The indistinguishable ether.
(d) The gray To-come.

12. In what way does DuBois say his son was fortunate?
(a) He never had to contend with a world that would see him as inferior.
(b) He was better loved than anyone else in DuBois’ family.
(c) He never learned language in order to curse being born.
(d) He got to experience the sweetest part of life.

13. Where was John Jones from?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Chattahoochee.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Altamaha.

14. What does DuBois say we cannot hope for, not for some generations?
(a) Sympathy between black and white.
(b) A black intellectual class.
(c) Black entrepreneurs.
(d) Integrated neighborhoods.

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