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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 many churches are there for every black family in America, according to DuBois?
2. What effect does DuBois say the sorrow songs had on him, the first time he heard one?
3. What is the outcome of John’s school in his hometown?
4. When was Alexander Crummell born?
5. What did the whites in John’s hometown say about him going to school?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the reason for this tragic anecdote, as the penultimate chapter, coming on the heels of the previous, more triumphant chapter, as it does?
2. What is DuBois’ final hope for his book?
3. How does DuBois describe the one-room cabin most blacks live in, in Dougherty county?
4. What is the black farmer’s relationship with the white merchant, according to DuBois?
5. How does DuBois characterize the Music in the Southern Negro revival meeting?
6. How has the loss of the plantation life resulted in the isolation of black and white cultures?
7. What did the Fisk Jubilee Singers accomplish?
8. How are the physical dwellings of blacks and whites related, in DuBois' account?
9. How does DuBois characterize the Preacher in the Southern Negro revival meeting?
10. How does John Jones change on account of his semester away from school?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
Essay Topic 2
Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.
Essay Topic 3
In what ways is The Souls of Black Folk relevant to contemporary readers? What contemporary issues are in play in the book, and how would the book contribute to contemporary discussion? Cite specific discussions from contemporary sources, and cite specific instances from the book, that describe its contemporary relevance.
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