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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people perished during the Middle Passage?
(a) About 2 million.
(b) About 750,000.
(c) About 500,000.
(d) About 1 million.

2. What was the first higher education institution to accept women and Black people?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) St. John's College.
(c) Oberlin College.
(d) Stanford University.

3. Which piece of legislation prohibited Black people from gathering without white supervision?
(a) The Negro Act of 1740.
(b) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
(c) The U.S. Constitution.
(d) The Fourteenth Amendment.

4. Which English philosopher's work influenced the Declaration of Independence?
(a) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
(b) Francis Bacon.
(c) John Locke.
(d) Immanuel Kent.

5. What statement is NOT true of Charles Grandison Finney?
(a) He allowed Black people to join his church.
(b) He advocated for Black emancipation.
(c) He was an outspoken abolitionist.
(d) He supported racial desegregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Tisby, when did Christianity arrive in Africa?

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

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

4. Which revivalist preacher used profits from slave labor to build an orphanage?

5. What was the impact of chattel slavery on Black families?

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