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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 did being kicked out of school change John?
2. What does DuBois say the black church antedates?
3. How many Negro churches were there in the 1890 census?
4. What is the dominant crop in the land DuBois describes?
5. What is being brought, in the poem that opens Chapter 13?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does DuBois characterize the Frenzy the Southern Negro revival meeting?
2. What does DuBois say is at the heart of the sorrow songs?
3. What is DuBois’ relation to death, in Chapter 11?
4. How are the physical dwellings of blacks and whites related, in DuBois' account?
5. How does DuBois describe the one-room cabin most blacks live in, in Dougherty county?
6. Why does DuBois think that his son might have been fortunate to die young?
7. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Hate?
8. What is the role of music in the coming of John?
9. What does DuBois say is the tragedy of people like Alexander Crummell?
10. What factors does DuBois say have led to crime among blacks?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When is The Souls of Black Folk most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What is the role of debt in the lives of the blacks DuBois describes? Using examples from the text, describe the importance of debt as an obstacle to the self-fullment of blacks, and describe DuBois’ proposals for mitigating this problem.
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