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Chapter 1-2

1. What year did the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing occur?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1965.

2. Following the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, a white lawyer claimed that all white Christians bore some responsibility. What was this lawyer's name?
(a) Carolyn DuPont.
(b) Billy Graham.
(c) Charles Morgan Jr.
(d) George Whitefield.

3. According to Tisby, what is required to achieve "reconciliation" (15)?
(a) Repentence.
(b) Grief.
(c) Anger.
(d) Acceptance.

4. In Chapter 1, Beverly Daniel Tatum defines racism as a combination of "prejudice" and another factor. What is the second factor?
(a) Planning.
(b) Power.
(c) Bigotry.
(d) Ethnicity.

5. How does Tisby categorize his book, The Color of Compromise?
(a) Biography.
(b) Historical survey.
(c) Historical nonfiction.
(d) Historical fiction.

6. What word does Tisby use to describe white Christianity's attitude toward racism?
(a) Competitive.
(b) Complicit.
(c) Compassionate.
(d) Combative.

7. How does Tisby perceive racism?
(a) As an inevitability.
(b) As a historical myth.
(c) As a social construct.
(d) As a mystery.

8. Which activist claimed that, "There can be no deep disappointment without deep love" (19)?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Rosa Parks.

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