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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did the Constitutional Convention take place?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1772.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1787.

2. At the Constitutional Convention, delegates allowed the question of slavery to be set aside for 20 years. What term has been used to describe this compromise?
(a) The dirty compromise.
(b) The Missouri compromise.
(c) The Philadelphia compromise.
(d) The three-fifths compromise.

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

4. Which group received additional rights after the Revolutionary War?
(a) Black people.
(b) White landowners.
(c) White women.
(d) Native Americans.

5. According to Tisby, how did most enslaved Blacks respond to the rise of Christian revivalist preachers in the 1700s?
(a) They converted to Christianity and integrated into white churches.
(b) They rejected Christianity and refused to convert.
(c) They considered Christianity, but chose another religion.
(d) They adopted Chrsitianity and made it their own.

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

7. What year did the Haitian Revolution take place?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1764.
(d) 1791.

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

9. What word does Tisby use to describe white Christianity's attitude toward racism?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Combative.
(c) Complicit.
(d) Competitive.

10. Who were the first Europeans to reach the Americas?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) The German.
(c) The English.
(d) The Scandinavians.

11. How did Columbus view the native inhabitants of the Americas?
(a) As skilled laborers.
(b) As potential slaves.
(c) As fellow citizens.
(d) As spiritual equals.

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

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

14. Which organization decided in the 1600s that baptism would not free enslaved people?
(a) The Progressive National Baptist Convention.
(b) The United Daughters of the Confederacy.
(c) The Pentecostal Fellowship of North America.
(d) The Virginia General Assembly.

15. According to Tisby, which of the following statements about Thomas Jefferson is NOT true?
(a) He was a slave-owner.
(b) He was an abolitionist.
(c) He opposed racial equality.
(d) He drafted the Declaration of Independence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tisby perceive racism?

2. What was the term used for the process of preparing slaves for their new life of bondage?

3. During the early colonization of the Americas, which crop was most profitable?

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

5. Which activist claimed that, "There can be no deep disappointment without deep love" (19)?

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