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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What consolation does DuBois imagine, for the likelihood that his son would have lived in a racist society, if he lived?
(a) He might always have returned to Africa.
(b) He might have borne it lighter than he himself had.
(c) He might have become the leader who would change things.
(d) The times might have changed by the time he matured.

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

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

4. What does DuBois say is the tragedy of the age?
(a) That wickedness is rewarded with profit.
(b) That violence is tolerated and approved.
(c) That men know so little of men.
(d) That virtue is typically powerless.

5. What is the chief form of relations between blacks and whites in the South, according to DuBois?
(a) Physical proximity.
(b) Religion.
(c) Politics.
(d) Economics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advantage do the farmers to rent for fixed money enjoy, according to DuBois?

2. How has Texas affected farming in the Black Belt?

3. What was the Port Royal experiment?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What factors does DuBois say have led to crime among blacks?

2. What vision does DuBois have, of the blacks’ importance in the world economy?

3. What is the reason for this tragic anecdote, as the penultimate chapter, coming on the heels of the previous, more triumphant chapter, as it does?

4. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Hate?

5. What was the Port Royal experiment?

6. How has the loss of the plantation life resulted in the isolation of black and white cultures?

7. What is DuBois’ relation to death, in Chapter 11?

8. How does this chapter differ from the previous chapters?

9. Why does DuBois think that his son might have been fortunate to die young?

10. What does DuBois say is at the heart of the sorrow songs?

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