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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. In what way does DuBois say his son was fortunate?
(a) He was better loved than anyone else in DuBois’ family.
(b) He got to experience the sweetest part of life.
(c) He never learned language in order to curse being born.
(d) He never had to contend with a world that would see him as inferior.

2. Which church refused to admit Alexander Crummell?
(a) Baptist.
(b) Episcopal.
(c) Methodist.
(d) Catholic.

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

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

5. What does DuBois say is the world’s most piteous thing?
(a) A childless mother.
(b) A dead child.
(c) A childless father.
(d) An empty cradle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is John kicked out of school for a semester?

2. What did the whites in John’s hometown say about him going to school?

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

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

5. How does DuBois characterize John Jones?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the role of music in the coming of John?

4. What was the Port Royal experiment?

5. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Despair?

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

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

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

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

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

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