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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Alexander Crummell doubt when he was visited by the third temptation, of Doubt?
(a) The possibility of redemption.
(b) The value of his life.
(c) The reality of grace.
(d) The existence of God.

2. What is the outcome of John’s school in his hometown?
(a) It becomes a regional model.
(b) It is set on fire.
(c) The Judge closes it.
(d) It merges with Georgia University.

3. What does DuBois ask the reader to do, in the Afterthought?
(a) Keep the book in circulation.
(b) Give the book to a friend.
(c) Talk about the color problem.
(d) Solve the color problem.

4. What does DuBois say the nineteenth century is the first century of?
(a) Peace.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Sympathy.
(d) Cooperation.

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

6. What is the avenue for escape from the grind of debt, according to DuBois?
(a) Save and invest.
(b) Flee to town.
(c) Go West.
(d) Crop rotation.

7. How does DuBois characterize the son’s relation to the Veil?
(a) He was born within it.
(b) He was born free of it.
(c) He was born beyond it.
(d) He was born behind it.

8. What does DuBois say the sorrow songs grope toward?
(a) Return home.
(b) Justice.
(c) Rest.
(d) freedom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does DuBois say the sorrow songs say about how life appeared to the slaves?
(a) That it was intolerable.
(b) That it was unjust.
(c) That it was joyful.
(d) That it was miserable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say might change how the Veil sits on the American blacks?

2. How does DuBois characterize the process of land valuation in the Black Belt?

3. How does DuBois characterize the sorrow songs?

4. What art form comes most directly from the Sorrow Song?

5. How many churches are there for every black family in America, according to DuBois?

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