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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is John kicked out of school for a semester?
(a) For debt.
(b) For gambling.
(c) For irregular work.
(d) For corrupting his fellow students.

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

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

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

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

6. 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 never learned language in order to curse being born.
(c) He got to experience the sweetest part of life.
(d) He was better loved than anyone else in DuBois’ family.

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

8. Where do warriors spring from, in the myth of the Golden Fleece?
(a) Mutilated body parts.
(b) Dragon’s teeth.
(c) Amputated fingers.
(d) Warriors’ weapons.

9. 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.

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

11. 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.

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the problem the poet complains of in the poem that opens Chapter 9?

3. When does DuBois say universal suffrage a popular topic in the South?

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

5. What does DuBois say is the characteristic trend of his times?

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