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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. When was Alexander Crummell born?

2. Where does DuBois say Alexander Crummell came from?

3. What does DuBois say his first feeling for his son was?

4. What does DuBois say the nineteenth century is the first century of?

5. Why does DuBois say blacks in the South abandoned politics?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Port Royal experiment?

2. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Doubt?

3. What did the Fisk Jubilee Singers accomplish?

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

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

6. How does DuBois say Christianity appealed to the blacks in slavery?

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

8. How are the physical dwellings of blacks and whites related, in DuBois' account?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in the development of The Souls of Black Folk. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 2

Would you recommend The Souls of Black Folk? For what purposes would you recommend The Souls of Black Folk, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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