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

2. Where does DuBois say leadership for blacks will have to come from?
(a) The old Southern aristocracy.
(b) Northerners.
(c) Foreigners.
(d) The blacks themselves.

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

4. What does DuBois say was the Negro’s first religion?
(a) Voodoo.
(b) Nature worship.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Paganism.

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

6. What effect does DuBois say the sorrow songs had on him, the first time he heard one?
(a) It reminded him of his mother’s voice.
(b) He recognized it immediately.
(c) He was frightened by it.
(d) It transported him back to the South.

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

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

9. What kind of explanation does DuBois endeavor to provide, of the color line in the South?
(a) A scientific account.
(b) A plain, unvarnished tale.
(c) A theoretical model.
(d) An account of the guilty parties.

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

11. How does DuBois characterize the music blacks make at a revival?
(a) Infectious.
(b) Plaintive
(c) Exuberant.
(d) Invigorating.

12. Why does DuBois say blacks in the South abandoned politics?
(a) There were so many scandals it became disreputable.
(b) There was too much violent opposition.
(c) Without a fair judiciary, politics were senseless.
(d) The whites stole from them regardless of politics.

13. Where did Alexander Crummell finally practice as a minister?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) New York.
(c) London.
(d) Providence.

14. What does DuBois say his wife had had to do, to produce their son?
(a) Be reborn.
(b) Liberate herself.
(c) Sleep with death.
(d) Allow herself to be enslaved.

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) Less imposing.
(c) More aristocratic.
(d) More elaborate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does DuBois say we cannot hope for, not for some generations?

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

4. What does DuBois say is the result of the geographical separation of races?

5. What aspect of his son did DuBois consider an evil omen?

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