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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does DuBois say the black church antedates?
(a) The black family.
(b) Emancipation.
(c) The home.
(d) Slavery.

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

4. What does DuBois say is the characteristic trend of his times?
(a) The expansion of capitalism through the globe.
(b) The vanishing industrial base of the South.
(c) The development of labor-saving technologies.
(d) Contact of civilized and primitive people.

5. How does DuBois characterize the message that is contained in the sorrow songs?
(a) Mystical.
(b) Obvious.
(c) Veiled.
(d) Hidden.

6. How does DuBois characterize the process of land valuation in the Black Belt?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Mathematical.
(c) Standardized.
(d) Idiosyncratic.

7. What role does DuBois say the church plays in black culture?
(a) Intellectual center.
(b) Financial center.
(c) Center of corruption.
(d) Social center.

8. What aspect of his son did DuBois consider an evil omen?
(a) Gold-tinted hair.
(b) A cough.
(c) Six fingers.
(d) Blue eyes.

9. How does DuBois characterize the revival preacher?
(a) A healer who is also a politician.
(b) The center and life of a community.
(c) The most unique figure in American culture.
(d) A charlatan with great skills.

10. How does DuBois characterize John Jones?
(a) Good-natured.
(b) Graceful.
(c) Introverted.
(d) Powerful.

11. What is the problem the poet complains of in the poem that opens Chapter 9?
(a) Bad government.
(b) High rents.
(c) Crowding.
(d) Bad health.

12. Which is NOT one of the components of the Southern Negro Revival?
(a) The frenzy.
(b) The choir.
(c) The preacher.
(d) The music.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Port Royal experiment?

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

3. How many Negro churches were there in the 1890 census?

4. How does DuBois characterize the music blacks make at a revival?

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

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