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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 is the tragedy of the age?
(a) That men know so little of men.
(b) That wickedness is rewarded with profit.
(c) That violence is tolerated and approved.
(d) That virtue is typically powerless.

2. What is the chief form of relations between blacks and whites in the South, according to DuBois?
(a) Religion.
(b) Economics.
(c) Physical proximity.
(d) Politics.

3. What kind of cabin does DuBois say is the exception the rule?
(a) The filthy.
(b) The ramshackle.
(c) The habitable.
(d) The scrupulously neat.

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

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

6. How does DuBois characterize the son’s relation to the Veil?
(a) He was born behind it.
(b) He was born free of it.
(c) He was born beyond it.
(d) He was born within it.

7. Which church refused to admit Alexander Crummell?
(a) Episcopal.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Methodist.
(d) Baptist.

8. What kind of people does DuBois say the sorrow songs come from?
(a) Indomitable.
(b) Long-suffering.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Spiritual.

9. Why does DuBois say tenant farmers do not improve their land?
(a) They have no incentive.
(b) They want to destroy it.
(c) They have no money.
(d) They want to undermine their landlords.

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

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

12. What claim does DuBois make for Negro music?
(a) He calls it the most original expression of human life to come from America.
(b) He says that it is the seed of something unique, anticipating blues and jazz.
(c) He says that he has never had a more profound experience than to hear it.
(d) He says that it is an eternal sound, older than anything in America.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does DuBois characterize the sorrow songs?

2. What does DuBois say is the relationship between the black church and the world at large?

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

4. What does DuBois say might change how the Veil sits on the American blacks?

5. What was the first change in the Africans’ lives, according to DuBois?

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