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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does Tisby use to describe Christianity that "embraces racial and ethnic diversity" (24)?
(a) Courageous Christianity.
(b) Complicit Christianity.
(c) Complacent Christianity.
(d) Conscientious Chrsitianity.

2. According to Tisby, what belief structure was behind the Lost Cause narrative?
(a) Abolitionism
(b) White supremecy.
(c) Racial equality.
(d) Fundementalism.

3. Which president established the Freedman's Bureau?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) James Buchanan.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

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

5. According to slave codes, what determined whether a child was born free or enslaved?
(a) The mother's religion.
(b) The mother's slave status.
(c) The father's religion.
(d) The father's slave status.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was it difficult for abolitionists to use the Bible support for their views?

3. According to James Henley Thornwell, "The church can merely assert what the bible teaches, and must remain silent on that which the bible is silent" (85). What is the name of this doctrine?

4. Following the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, a white lawyer claimed that all white Christians bore some responsibility. What was this lawyer's name?

5. What year did the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing occur?

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