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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. How does DuBois characterize the revival preacher?
(a) The most unique figure in American culture.
(b) The center and life of a community.
(c) A charlatan with great skills.
(d) A healer who is also a politician.

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

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

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

5. What kind of people does DuBois say the sorrow songs come from?
(a) Indomitable.
(b) Disappointed.
(c) Long-suffering.
(d) Spiritual.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the problem the poet complains of in the poem that opens Chapter 9?

3. What kind of cabin does DuBois say is the exception the rule?

4. What does DuBois say should be the purpose of all striving in the twentieth century?

5. When was Alexander Crummell born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the Fisk Jubilee Singers accomplish?

4. 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?

5. What vision does DuBois have, of a future for American blacks?

6. How does John Jones change on account of his semester away from school?

7. How are the physical dwellings of blacks and whites related, in DuBois' account?

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

9. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Doubt?

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

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