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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 center and life of a community.
(b) A charlatan with great skills.
(c) The most unique figure in American culture.
(d) A healer who is also a politician.

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

3. What does DuBois say the black church antedates?
(a) Emancipation.
(b) The black family.
(c) Slavery.
(d) The home.

4. Whose economic system resembles the economic system of the Black Belt?
(a) Britain before the Labor Act.
(b) The North since the beginning of industrialism.
(c) The South before railroads.
(d) France since the advent of unions.

5. What effect does DuBois say the sorrow songs had on him, the first time he heard one?
(a) He recognized it immediately.
(b) He was frightened by it.
(c) It reminded him of his mother’s voice.
(d) It transported him back to the South.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Alexander Crummell finally practice as a minister?

3. What is the ratio of blacks to whites in the Black Belt?

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

5. Where does DuBois say he met Alexander Crummell for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does DuBois characterize the double system of justice in the South?

5. What took John so long to go home?

6. How has the price of cotton affected the Black Belt?

7. How does DuBois say Christianity appealed to the blacks in slavery?

8. What was the Port Royal experiment?

9. 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?

10. How does DuBois describe the one-room cabin most blacks live in, in Dougherty county?

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