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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old was Alexander Crummell when DuBois met him?
(a) 48.
(b) 65.
(c) 80.
(d) 22.
2. What groups almost never live close to each other?
(a) The best of blacks and whites.
(b) The worst of blacks and whites.
(c) The black and white tradesmen.
(d) The poor black and white farmers.
3. What is the ratio of blacks to whites in the Black Belt?
(a) 20:1.
(b) 5:1
(c) 8:1.
(d) 12:1.
4. Where was John Jones from?
(a) Chattahoochee.
(b) Altamaha.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Nashville.
5. How long did DuBois’ son live before dying?
(a) 14 months.
(b) 26 months.
(c) 22 months.
(d) 18 months.
6. How does DuBois compare the plantation houses in Dougherty County with plantation houses in Virginia, in the time of slavery?
(a) More elaborate.
(b) More practical.
(c) Less imposing.
(d) More aristocratic.
7. How does DuBois characterize the process of land valuation in the Black Belt?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Idiosyncratic.
(c) Mathematical.
(d) Standardized.
8. What does DuBois say was the Negro’s first religion?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Voodoo.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Nature worship.
9. What does DuBois say is the result of the geographical separation of races?
(a) Typically the best of each race comes in contact with the other.
(b) No one can see the whole picture.
(c) The races are preserved from each other’s flaws.
(d) The races mingle more socially.
10. What does DuBois say is the world’s most piteous thing?
(a) A dead child.
(b) An empty cradle.
(c) A childless mother.
(d) A childless father.
11. 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.
12. In what way does DuBois say his son was fortunate?
(a) He never learned language in order to curse being born.
(b) He got to experience the sweetest part of life.
(c) He never had to contend with a world that would see him as inferior.
(d) He was better loved than anyone else in DuBois’ family.
13. What does DuBois say we cannot hope for, not for some generations?
(a) Black entrepreneurs.
(b) Sympathy between black and white.
(c) A black intellectual class.
(d) Integrated neighborhoods.
14. When was Alexander Crummell born?
(a) The Missouri Compromise.
(b) The Atlanta Compromise.
(c) The signing of the Constitution.
(d) The Great Compromise.
15. How does DuBois characterize the sorrow songs?
(a) Inescapable.
(b) catchy.
(c) Weird.
(d) Crushing.
Short Answer Questions
1. What news did DuBois get, at the beginning of the chapter?
2. Which is NOT one of the components of the Southern Negro Revival?
3. Where does DuBois say he met Alexander Crummell for the first time?
4. What does DuBois ask the reader to do, in the Afterthought?
5. Why does DuBois say tenant farmers do not improve their land?
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