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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 year did the Constitutional Convention take place?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1787.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1772.

2. Which Black preacher helped found the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
(a) Richard R. Jones.
(b) Richard Allen.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Jesse Jackson.

3. What was an octoroon?
(a) A person who was 1/8th black.
(b) A person who was 1/8th white.
(c) A person who was 1/8th Hispanic.
(d) A person who was 1/8th Native American.

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?
(a) George Whitefield.
(b) Billy Graham.
(c) Carolyn DuPont.
(d) Charles Morgan Jr.

5. According to Tisby, what attracted most Black people to Christianity during the Colonial era?
(a) The chance to win the vote.
(b) The opportunity for education.
(c) The hope of earthly liberation.
(d) The prospect of higher wages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Tisby use to describe Christianity that "embraces racial and ethnic diversity" (24)?

2. 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?

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

4. How did "paternalist" (66) white Christians view Black people?

5. Which activist claimed that, "There can be no deep disappointment without deep love" (19)?

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