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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 John humming while he waits for the police?
(a) Lohengrin.
(b) Carmen.
(c) The Star Spangled Banner.
(d) The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

2. What kind of people does DuBois say the sorrow songs come from?
(a) Long-suffering.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Indomitable.
(d) Disappointed.

3. Where does DuBois say Alexander Crummell came from?
(a) The gray To-come.
(b) The pulsing Now.
(c) The indistinguishable ether.
(d) The crimson Past.

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

5. What does DuBois say should be the purpose of all striving in the twentieth century?
(a) That justice reign on earth.
(b) That the meek inherit the earth.
(c) That the fittest survive.
(d) That the good, beautiful and true triumph.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of cabin does DuBois say is the exception the rule?

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

4. How does DuBois compare the plantation houses in Dougherty County with plantation houses in Virginia, in the time of slavery?

5. Which church refused to admit Alexander Crummell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is DuBois’ relation to death, in Chapter 11?

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

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

4. What did the Fisk Jubilee Singers accomplish?

5. What took John so long to go home?

6. What was the Port Royal experiment?

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

8. How does DuBois characterize the Preacher in the Southern Negro revival meeting?

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

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

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