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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 was the Port Royal experiment?
(a) Blacks were given arms to fight against the South.
(b) Blacks were given abandoned plantations to run.
(c) Northerners came to teach blacks during the war.
(d) Northerners adopted slaves to get them out of the South.

2. What does DuBois say is the keynote of the Black Belt?
(a) Bitterness.
(b) Debt.
(c) Hope.
(d) Training.

3. 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.

4. How does DuBois characterize John Jones?
(a) Introverted.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Good-natured.
(d) Graceful.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is John humming while he waits for the police?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does DuBois say is the tragedy of people like Alexander Crummell?

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