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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has the price of cotton affected the Black Belt?
(a) It has plunged, impoverishing cotton Farmers.
(b) It has stabilized, allowing farmers to invest.
(c) It is increased, bringing prosperity.
(d) It has been unstable, making farmers conservative.

2. 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 expansion of capitalism through the globe.
(d) The vanishing industrial base of the South.

3. How did being kicked out of school change John?
(a) It made him more serious.
(b) It made him more irregular.
(c) It made him deathly afraid.
(d) It made him more easy-going.

4. What news did DuBois get, at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) That his son was sick.
(b) That his son had died.
(c) That his son had been born.
(d) That his wife had died.

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

6. How many churches are there for every black family in America, according to DuBois?
(a) 1:175.
(b) 1:60.
(c) 1:125.
(d) 1:250.

7. 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.

8. When does DuBois say universal suffrage a popular topic in the South?
(a) The 1850s.
(b) The 1890s.
(c) The 1820s.
(d) The 1870s.

9. What does DuBois say should be the purpose of all striving in the twentieth century?
(a) That the fittest survive.
(b) That justice reign on earth.
(c) That the good, beautiful and true triumph.
(d) That the meek inherit the earth.

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

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

12. 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) Solve the color problem.
(d) Talk about the color problem.

13. What does DuBois say the sorrow songs are silent about?
(a) Death.
(b) Home.
(c) Family.
(d) Love.

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

15. What does DuBois say is the relationship between the black church and the world at large?
(a) The church is a model.
(b) The church is a microcosm.
(c) The church is an alternative.
(d) the church is a refuge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose economic system resembles the economic system of the Black Belt?

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

3. How does DuBois characterize the message that is contained in the sorrow songs?

4. What does DuBois say is the result of the geographical separation of races?

5. How does DuBois characterize the son’s relation to the Veil?

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