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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did being kicked out of school change John?
(a) It made him more serious.
(b) It made him more irregular.
(c) It made him more easy-going.
(d) It made him deathly afraid.

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

3. What is the dominant crop in the land DuBois describes?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Corn.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Vegetables.

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

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

6. How has Texas affected farming in the Black Belt?
(a) It has flooded the market with cheap labor.
(b) It has taken many of the farm hands.
(c) It has lowered the price of cotton.
(d) It has raised the cost of cotton production.

7. What does DuBois say blacks typically see in the area of law and justice?
(a) Profitability.
(b) Humiliation.
(c) Opportunity.
(d) Revenge.

8. How does DuBois say the Africans placed slavery within their spiritual schema?
(a) As retribution for ancient wrongs.
(b) As punishment for original sin.
(c) As a triumph of evil forces.
(d) As the first necessary step in their ascent.

9. What did the whites in John’s hometown say about him going to school?
(a) It would help the community.
(b) It would corrupt him.
(c) He would never return.
(d) It would spoil him.

10. When does DuBois say universal suffrage a popular topic in the South?
(a) The 1820s.
(b) The 1870s.
(c) The 1890s.
(d) The 1850s.

11. How long does it take John to come home?
(a) Seven years.
(b) One year.
(c) Four years.
(d) Two years.

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

13. What advantage do the farmers to rent for fixed money enjoy, according to DuBois?
(a) They get better prices for their crops.
(b) They can select their crops.
(c) They benefit from their improvements
(d) They get lower prices on supplies.

14. What is being brought, in the poem that opens Chapter 13?
(a) Refugees.
(b) Children.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) The human heart.

15. How does DuBois characterize the sorrow songs?
(a) Crushing.
(b) Weird.
(c) Inescapable.
(d) catchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say was the Negro’s first religion?

2. Why does DuBois say blacks in the South abandoned politics?

3. Where do warriors spring from, in the myth of the Golden Fleece?

4. Where does DuBois say he met Alexander Crummell for the first time?

5. Which church refused to admit Alexander Crummell?

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