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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 sorrow songs?
(a) catchy.
(b) Weird.
(c) Crushing.
(d) Inescapable.
2. What role does DuBois say the church plays in black culture?
(a) Intellectual center.
(b) Center of corruption.
(c) Social center.
(d) Financial center.
3. How is Chapter 11, On the Passing of the Firstborn, different from the other chapters?
(a) It is much more personal.
(b) It is much more reassuring.
(c) It is much more guarded.
(d) It is much more bitter.
4. Which is NOT one of the components of the Southern Negro Revival?
(a) The choir.
(b) The frenzy.
(c) The music.
(d) The preacher.
5. What does DuBois ask the reader to do, in the Afterthought?
(a) Talk about the color problem.
(b) Solve the color problem.
(c) Give the book to a friend.
(d) Keep the book in circulation.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does DuBois characterize the message that is contained in the sorrow songs?
2. What news did DuBois get, at the beginning of the chapter?
3. How old was Alexander Crummell when DuBois met him?
4. How long did DuBois’ son live before dying?
5. What groups almost never live close to each other?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does DuBois characterize the Frenzy the Southern Negro revival meeting?
2. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Hate?
3. How does DuBois characterize the Preacher in the Southern Negro revival meeting?
4. 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?
5. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Despair?
6. How are the physical dwellings of blacks and whites related, in DuBois' account?
7. What is the role of music in the coming of John?
8. What took John so long to go home?
9. How does this chapter differ from the previous chapters?
10. How does DuBois characterize the double system of justice in the South?
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