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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. Why does DuBois say tenant farmers do not improve their land?
(a) They have no money.
(b) They want to undermine their landlords.
(c) They have no incentive.
(d) They want to destroy it.

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

3. What news did DuBois get, at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) That his son had been born.
(b) That his wife had died.
(c) That his son was sick.
(d) That his son had died.

4. What does DuBois say the black church antedates?
(a) Emancipation.
(b) The home.
(c) The black family.
(d) Slavery.

5. Where does DuBois say leadership for blacks will have to come from?
(a) The old Southern aristocracy.
(b) The blacks themselves.
(c) Northerners.
(d) Foreigners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does DuBois say the church plays in black culture?

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

3. What does DuBois say his wife had had to do, to produce their son?

4. What does DuBois say is the world’s most piteous thing?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 factors does DuBois say have led to crime among blacks?

6. What does DuBois say is the tragedy of people like Alexander Crummell?

7. Why does DuBois think that his son might have been fortunate to die young?

8. 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?

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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