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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 people attended the March on Washington DC for Job and Freedom?

2. What was Muhammad Ali's real name?

3. What was the nickname for the state of Kansas during the years leading up to the Civil War?

4. Which northern city was chosen as the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sothern Christian Leadership Conference?

5. Who spearheaded the revival of the KKK in the early 1900s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Following the Scopes Trial of 1925, what did many white Christians fear?

2. In Chapter 5, Tisby argues that slavery was both a religious and civil issue. How was slavery a religious issue?

3. What was Theodore Bilbo's opinion on racial intermixing?

4. Some historians and contemporary pundits argue that the Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery. What is Tisby's perspective?

5. What was the result of the Compromise of 1877?

6. How did many white moderates in the 1960s believe that racism should be addressed?

7. Following Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka, some white parents chose to send their children to private schools. What motivated this decision?

8. How did white Christians use the "curse of Ham" (82) passage to justify slavery?

9. According to Tisby, what impact did the inaction of white moderate Christians have on the civil rights movement?

10. When Martin Luther King, Jr. was jailed following a protest in Birmingham, eight white clergymen wrote to him. What did they ask him to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." How does this text reflect the attitudes of contemporary white churches? In an argumentative essay, explore whether the behavior King described in the 1960s has changed or stayed the same.

Essay Topic 2

Tisby draws a distinction between "complicit Christianity" and "courageous Christianity." Write a compare-and-contrast essay analyzing these terms. What is the main difference between the two concepts? How can white Christians practice "courageous Christianity"?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring racial justice within local religious or spiritual communities. In your opinion, do your local communities promote equality and fight racism? Analyze Tisby's recommendations for racial reconciliation. Determine which (if any) your community practices.

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