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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 does DuBois say his first feeling for his son was?
(a) He did not love him.
(b) He was afraid for him.
(c) He was terrified by him.
(d) He loved him immediately.

2. What does DuBois say we cannot hope for, not for some generations?
(a) Integrated neighborhoods.
(b) Sympathy between black and white.
(c) A black intellectual class.
(d) Black entrepreneurs.

3. What claim does DuBois make for Negro music?
(a) He says that he has never had a more profound experience than to hear it.
(b) He calls it the most original expression of human life to come from America.
(c) He says that it is the seed of something unique, anticipating blues and jazz.
(d) He says that it is an eternal sound, older than anything in America.

4. What art form comes most directly from the Sorrow Song?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Dixieland.
(c) Blues.
(d) Ragtime.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Port Royal experiment?

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

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

4. How does DuBois characterize the sorrow songs?

5. Where was John Jones from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the black farmer’s relationship with the white merchant, according to DuBois?

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

5. What is DuBois’ final hope for his book?

6. How does DuBois characterize the Music in the Southern Negro revival meeting?

7. What was the Port Royal experiment?

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

9. How does DuBois characterize the Frenzy the Southern Negro revival meeting?

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

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