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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 kind of cabin does DuBois say is the exception the rule?
(a) The habitable.
(b) The filthy.
(c) The scrupulously neat.
(d) The ramshackle.

2. What is the problem the poet complains of in the poem that opens Chapter 9?
(a) Bad government.
(b) Crowding.
(c) Bad health.
(d) High rents.

3. When does DuBois say universal suffrage a popular topic in the South?
(a) The 1890s.
(b) The 1820s.
(c) The 1850s.
(d) The 1870s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do warriors spring from, in the myth of the Golden Fleece?

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

3. How does DuBois characterize the revival preacher?

4. What does DuBois say is the relationship between the black church and the world at large?

5. How long does it take John to come home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Port Royal experiment?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What did the Fisk Jubilee Singers accomplish?

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

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

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