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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Carolyn DuPont.
(c) Billy Graham.
(d) Charles Morgan Jr.

2. How did enslaved Blacks share messages about possible escape plans?
(a) In telegrams.
(b) In letters.
(c) In newspapers.
(d) In songs.

3. When was the legal end of Jim Crow?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1960.

4. When did the construction of Confederate monuments become popular?
(a) 1920-1940.
(b) 1870-1900.
(c) 1940-1970.
(d) 1900-1920.

5. According to Tisby, what organization worked to erect Confederate monuments after the Civil War?
(a) Colonial Dames of America.
(b) United Daughters of the Confederacy.
(c) Daughters of the American Revolution.
(d) Preservation of the Virginia Antiquities.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What year did Martin Luther King, Jr. write "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?

4. What word did white Southerners use to describe their attempt to regain power after the Civil War?

5. Tisby suggests resurrecting the tradition, started in the 1960s, of schools designed to teach students about civil rights. What is the name of these schools?

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