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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What incident led to the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention?
(a) The Baptist church removed Black congregants from their rosters.
(b) The Baptist church argued that white Christians should enlist in the army.
(c) The Baptist church appointed a slave-owning preacher.
(d) The Baptist church refused appoint slaveholders to office.

2. What did Sherman's Special Field Order promise black families?
(a) Horses.
(b) Money.
(c) Farmland.
(d) Cows.

3. What was a primary goal of "Redeemers" (97)?
(a) To stop Black people from voting.
(b) To promote racial equality.
(c) To enforce segregation laws.
(d) To provide Black citizens with land.

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

5. What rights were granted by the 15th Amendment?
(a) Black men were allowed to own property.
(b) Black men were free to join the army.
(c) Black men were considered full citizens.
(d) Black men were permitted to vote.

6. During World War I, what role were most Black soldiers assigned?
(a) Officers and lieutenants.
(b) Riflemen and footsoldiers.
(c) Servants and menial laborers.
(d) Medics and doctors.

7. Who gave the Cornerstone Speech?
(a) Stephen Douglas.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) Alexander Stephens.

8. What word did white Southerners use to describe their attempt to regain power after the Civil War?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Vindication.
(c) Reclamation.
(d) Absolution.

9. What statement does Tisby make about President Lincoln?
(a) He was a slave-owner.
(b) He was an effective leader.
(c) He was a passionate abolitionist.
(d) He was not in favor of racial equality.

10. What was the name of the president of the National Baptist Convention, often known as the "Negro Pope"?
(a) Gardner Calvin Taylor
(b) L. Venchael Booth
(c) Rev. Joseph H. Jackson
(d) Benjamin Mays

11. Which book of the Bible contains the "Curse of Ham" (82) passage?
(a) Revelations.
(b) Exodus.
(c) Leviticus.
(d) Genesis.

12. According to Tisby, in what organization did MLK start his activist career?
(a) Fellowship of Reconciliation.
(b) Regional Council of Negro Leadership.
(c) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
(d) The Montgomery Improvement Society.

13. What argument was outlined in GT Gillespie's "Christian View of Segregation"?
(a) The Bible directs opposed segregation policies.
(b) The Bible directly supports segregation policies.
(c) Segregation is against Christian principles and should be challnged.
(d) Segregation is a "natural law" and it should be upheld.

14. 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?
(a) It is harder for racism to be penalized in the South.
(b) It is harder for citizens in the South to understand history.
(c) It is easier for racism in other parts of the country to go unnoticed.
(d) It is easier for residents in the North to confront racism.

15. Following the Civil War, what part of the U.S. had the largest number of Catholics?
(a) The South.
(b) The East Coast.
(c) The Midwest.
(d) The West Coast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which northern city was chosen as the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sothern Christian Leadership Conference?

2. What famous silent film claimed to present the story of the KKK's establishment?

3. Who was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK?

4. Why did Presbyterians oppose the Gardener Springs Resolutions?

5. What was the term for the bloody racial conflict that gripped the South during 1919?

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