The Souls of Black Folk Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Souls of Black Folk Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was John Jones from?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Altamaha.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Chattahoochee.

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

3. 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) Meet people first-hand.
(c) Read the laws that allowed slavery to happen.
(d) Read about the history of the South.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Where does the image of the Golden Fleece come from?
(a) Roman myth.
(b) Greek myth.
(c) African myth.
(d) American history.

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

11. What did the whites in John’s hometown say about him going to school?
(a) It would corrupt him.
(b) He would never return.
(c) It would help the community.
(d) It would spoil him.

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

13. What groups almost never live close to each other?
(a) The poor black and white farmers.
(b) The black and white tradesmen.
(c) The best of blacks and whites.
(d) The worst of blacks and whites.

14. What does DuBois say is the world’s most piteous thing?
(a) A childless mother.
(b) A childless father.
(c) A dead child.
(d) An empty cradle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has black religion contributed to, in DuBois' account?

2. What does DuBois ask the reader to do, in the Afterthought?

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

4. What does DuBois say blacks typically see in the area of law and justice?

5. What is the dominant crop in the land DuBois describes?

(see the answer keys)

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