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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 is the outcome of John’s school in his hometown?
(a) It merges with Georgia University.
(b) The Judge closes it.
(c) It becomes a regional model.
(d) It is set on fire.

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

3. Which is NOT one of the components of the Southern Negro Revival?
(a) The preacher.
(b) The frenzy.
(c) The music.
(d) The choir.

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

5. How does DuBois characterize the sorrow songs?
(a) Weird.
(b) Inescapable.
(c) Crushing.
(d) catchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did DuBois’ son live before dying?

2. What is the avenue for escape from the grind of debt, according to DuBois?

3. How does DuBois characterize the revival preacher?

4. What did Alexander Crummell doubt when he was visited by the third temptation, of Doubt?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What factors does DuBois say have led to crime among blacks?

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

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

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

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

7. What was the Port Royal experiment?

8. How has the loss of the plantation life resulted in the isolation of black and white cultures?

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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