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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the term used for the process of preparing slaves for their new life of bondage?
(a) Hazing.
(b) Indoctrination.
(c) Seasoning.
(d) Training.

2. Which organization decided in the 1600s that baptism would not free enslaved people?
(a) The Progressive National Baptist Convention.
(b) The United Daughters of the Confederacy.
(c) The Pentecostal Fellowship of North America.
(d) The Virginia General Assembly.

3. What year did the Haitian Revolution take place?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1764.
(c) 1794.
(d) 1789.

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

5. 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) Charles Morgan Jr.
(c) George Whitefield.
(d) Billy Graham.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the early colonization of the Americas, which crop was most profitable?

2. What historical period coincided with the decline of slavery in Britain?

3. Who were the first Europeans to reach the Americas?

4. What was the term used for workers who were bound to their employer until they paid off a debt?

5. Which enslaved person wrote an autobiography chronicling his experiences in the Middle Passage?

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