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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 has black religion contributed to, in DuBois' account?
(a) American political life.
(b) American middle-class religion.
(c) Poor white religion.
(d) American entertainment.

2. How many churches are there for every black family in America, according to DuBois?
(a) 1:60.
(b) 1:250.
(c) 1:175.
(d) 1:125.

3. How old was Alexander Crummell when DuBois met him?
(a) 48.
(b) 65.
(c) 80.
(d) 22.

4. What does DuBois say his wife had had to do, to produce their son?
(a) Be reborn.
(b) Sleep with death.
(c) Liberate herself.
(d) Allow herself to be enslaved.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say politics depends on?

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

3. What does DuBois say the black church antedates?

4. How does DuBois characterize the process of land valuation in the Black Belt?

5. What groups almost never live close to each other?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. What was the Port Royal experiment?

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

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

8. How does DuBois say Christianity appealed to the blacks in slavery?

9. How are the physical dwellings of blacks and whites related, in DuBois' account?

10. What took John so long to go home?

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