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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Negro churches were there in the 1890 census?
(a) 2,400.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 8,500.
(d) 1,300.

2. Where is DuBois originally from?
(a) The White Mountains.
(b) The Alleghenies.
(c) The Berkshires.
(d) The Appalachians.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is being brought, in the poem that opens Chapter 13?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Refugees.
(c) The human heart.
(d) Children.

11. Why did John kill the white John, son of the Judge?
(a) For pure spite.
(b) For an insult.
(c) For theft.
(d) For groping his sister.

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

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

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

15. What is John humming while he waits for the police?
(a) Carmen.
(b) Lohengrin.
(c) The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
(d) The Star Spangled Banner.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does DuBois compare the plantation houses in Dougherty County with plantation houses in Virginia, in the time of slavery?

2. Which is NOT one of the components of the Southern Negro Revival?

3. In what way does DuBois say his son was fortunate?

4. How does DuBois say the Africans placed slavery within their spiritual schema?

5. What does DuBois say the nineteenth century is the first century of?

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