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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) Indoctrination.
(b) Hazing.
(c) Seasoning.
(d) Training.

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

3. What year did the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing occur?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1965.

4. What was the term used for workers who were bound to their employer until they paid off a debt?
(a) Domestic servants.
(b) Indentured servants.
(c) Chattel slaves.
(d) Bond slaves.

5. Which activist claimed that, "There can be no deep disappointment without deep love" (19)?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, Beverly Daniel Tatum defines racism as a combination of "prejudice" and another factor. What is the second factor?

2. How did Columbus view the native inhabitants of the Americas?

3. How many enslaved people were transported from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade?

4. Which organization decided in the 1600s that baptism would not free enslaved people?

5. Which church leader helped found The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG)?

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