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

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

3. How does DuBois say the Africans placed slavery within their spiritual schema?
(a) As retribution for ancient wrongs.
(b) As punishment for original sin.
(c) As a triumph of evil forces.
(d) As the first necessary step in their ascent.

4. What does DuBois say is the characteristic trend of his times?
(a) The development of labor-saving technologies.
(b) The expansion of capitalism through the globe.
(c) Contact of civilized and primitive people.
(d) The vanishing industrial base of the South.

5. What does DuBois say the nineteenth century is the first century of?
(a) Peace.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Sympathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John Jones from?

2. How is Chapter 11, On the Passing of the Firstborn, different from the other chapters?

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

4. What does DuBois say is the result of the geographical separation of races?

5. Why did John kill the white John, son of the Judge?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the Fisk Jubilee Singers accomplish?

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

6. What was the Port Royal experiment?

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

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

9. 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?

10. How does this chapter differ from the previous chapters?

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