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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does DuBois say the Africans placed slavery within their spiritual schema?
2. How many Negro churches were there in the 1890 census?
3. What is the dominant crop in the land DuBois describes?
4. What groups almost never live close to each other?
5. Where do warriors spring from, in the myth of the Golden Fleece?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does DuBois characterize the Music in the Southern Negro revival meeting?
2. Why does DuBois think that his son might have been fortunate to die young?
3. How does this chapter differ from the previous chapters?
4. How has the loss of the plantation life resulted in the isolation of black and white cultures?
5. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Hate?
6. How does DuBois characterize the Frenzy the Southern Negro revival meeting?
7. What is the role of music in the coming of John?
8. What factors does DuBois say have led to crime among blacks?
9. How does DuBois describe the one-room cabin most blacks live in, in Dougherty county?
10. What took John so long to go home?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How have conditions for blacks changed in America since DuBois wrote The Souls of Black Folk? If you were DuBois, and you were focusing on the same themes DuBois focused on with The Souls of Black Folk, what would you report today?
Essay Topic 2
Outrage over slavery is almost inescapable, but DuBois largely avoids it. Still, he has to include it in some way. Using examples from the text, describe how DuBois both includes and proposes to reconcile the powerful feelings that are associated with the history of black exploitation in the South.
Essay Topic 3
Who is the audience for The Souls of Black Folk? What is the ideal reader for The Souls of Black Folk likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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