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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. What does DuBois say is the result of the geographical separation of races?
2. What is being brought, in the poem that opens Chapter 13?
3. Where does DuBois say leadership for blacks will have to come from?
4. What role does DuBois say the church plays in black culture?
5. What is the ratio of blacks to whites in the Black Belt?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does John Jones change on account of his semester away from school?
2. What took John so long to go home?
3. What does DuBois say is at the heart of the sorrow songs?
4. What is the black farmer’s relationship with the white merchant, according to DuBois?
5. What vision does DuBois have, of a future for American blacks?
6. How did Alexander Crummell overcome the temptation of Despair?
7. How has the price of cotton affected the Black Belt?
8. How does DuBois say Christianity appealed to the blacks in slavery?
9. What is the role of music in the coming of John?
10. How does this chapter differ from the previous chapters?
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
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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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