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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Beginning in the 1930s, many Black Americans grew disillusioned with racism in Christian churches. What religion did some Black people turn to?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Taoism.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Islam.

3. What was the impact of chattel slavery on Black families?
(a) It allowed married couples to free their children.
(b) It frequently broke up families.
(c) It kept couples together, but separated children.
(d) It usually kept families intact.

4. What usually happened to enslaved people who were caught trying to escape?
(a) They were imprisoned.
(b) They were hanged.
(c) They were fined.
(d) They were exiled.

5. What year were was the Gardener Springs Resolutions introduced?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1858.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Constitutional Convention take place?

2. Where did Emmett Till's murder occur?

3. What was the term for the system that allowed Southern states to "hire out" prisoners to private companies?

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

5. In Chapter 7, Tisby speaks about that the "conspicuousness of white supremacy in the south" (129). According to him, what is one side-effect of this phenomenon?

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