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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the term for the bloody racial conflict that gripped the South during 1919?
(a) The Red Summer.
(b) The Summer of Ruin.
(c) The Summer of Death.
(d) The Bleak Summer.

2. Where did transatlantic ships carrying enslaved persons usually make port?
(a) The Caribbean.
(b) Western Europe.
(c) The East Indies.
(d) Eastern Canada.

3. Which war allowed Britain to expand their territory in North America in the mid-1700s?
(a) The Anglo-Spanish War.
(b) The War of Spanish Succession.
(c) The French and Indian War.
(d) The Revolutionary War.

4. How did "paternalist" (66) white Christians view Black people?
(a) As helpless and ignorant children.
(b) As legal and soacial equals.
(c) As dangerous and threatening criminals.
(d) As brothers and sisters in spirituality.

5. In Chapter 7, Tisby speaks about that the "conspicuousness of white supremacy in the south" (129). According to him, what is one side-effect of this phenomenon?
(a) It is harder for racism to be penalized in the South.
(b) It is harder for citizens in the South to understand history.
(c) It is easier for racism in other parts of the country to go unnoticed.
(d) It is easier for residents in the North to confront racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people perished during the Middle Passage?

2. What was the term used for the process of preparing slaves for their new life of bondage?

3. What was Muhammad Ali's real name?

4. What was the term used for the religious movement that emphasized a personal encounter with God?

5. According to Tisby, what attracted most Black people to Christianity during the Colonial era?

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