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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which Black preacher helped found the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
(a) Jesse Jackson.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Richard R. Jones.
(d) Richard Allen.

3. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, which regions received the largest number of enslaved persons?
(a) Europe and Asia.
(b) Africa and Australia.
(c) The Caribbean and South America.
(d) North and Central America.

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

5. How does Tisby categorize his book, The Color of Compromise?
(a) Historical nonfiction.
(b) Historical survey.
(c) Historical fiction.
(d) Biography.

6. What historical period coincided with the decline of slavery in Britain?
(a) The Renaissance.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The Late Middle Ages.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

7. Where did transatlantic ships carrying enslaved persons usually make port?
(a) Western Europe.
(b) Eastern Canada.
(c) The East Indies.
(d) The Caribbean.

8. How does Tisby view the U.S. Constitution?
(a) As a document that upholds the rights of Black people.
(b) As a document that takes no stance on racial issues.
(c) As an antislavery document.
(d) As a proslavery document.

9. In the 1800s, the global demand for which product helped fuel the north American slave trade?
(a) Steel.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Wool.
(d) Oil.

10. Who was John Newton?
(a) A pastor and politician.
(b) A foreign missionary.
(c) An emancipated slave.
(d) A priest and slave-trader.

11. Which war allowed Britain to expand their territory in North America in the mid-1700s?
(a) The Revolutionary War.
(b) The French and Indian War.
(c) The War of Spanish Succession.
(d) The Anglo-Spanish War.

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

13. Which for the following is NOT a reason Robert Finley cited in his proposal to send Black people back to Africa?
(a) This arrangement would offer enslaved Blacks a better life.
(b) This arrangement would "civilize" the continent of Africa.
(c) This arrangement would help the U.S. avoid paying reparations.
(d) This arrangement would rid the U.S. of Black people.

14. How did "paternalist" (66) white Christians view Black people?
(a) As helpless and ignorant children.
(b) As legal and soacial equals.
(c) As brothers and sisters in spirituality.
(d) As dangerous and threatening criminals.

15. During the early colonization of the Americas, which crop was most profitable?
(a) Corn.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the first Black Episcopal Church established in New York City?

3. According to Tisby, how did most enslaved Blacks respond to the rise of Christian revivalist preachers in the 1700s?

4. Who was the first Black preacher ordained in America?

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

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