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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 kind of explanation does DuBois endeavor to provide, of the color line in the South?
(a) An account of the guilty parties.
(b) A plain, unvarnished tale.
(c) A scientific account.
(d) A theoretical model.

2. What is the ratio of blacks to whites in the Black Belt?
(a) 12:1.
(b) 20:1.
(c) 5:1
(d) 8:1.

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

4. What did Alexander Crummell doubt when he was visited by the third temptation, of Doubt?
(a) The reality of grace.
(b) The existence of God.
(c) The value of his life.
(d) The possibility of redemption.

5. What does DuBois say his first feeling for his son was?
(a) He was terrified by him.
(b) He loved him immediately.
(c) He was afraid for him.
(d) He did not love him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does DuBois say we cannot hope for, not for some generations?

2. What does DuBois say we must do if we want to know about the color line?

3. Where do warriors spring from, in the myth of the Golden Fleece?

4. What does DuBois say the sorrow songs are silent about?

5. What claim does DuBois make for Negro music?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What took John so long to go home?

8. What was the Port Royal experiment?

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

10. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Hate?

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