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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which book of the Bible contains the "Curse of Ham" (82) passage?
(a) Leviticus.
(b) Exodus.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Revelations.
2. According to Tisby, what organization worked to erect Confederate monuments after the Civil War?
(a) United Daughters of the Confederacy.
(b) Preservation of the Virginia Antiquities.
(c) Colonial Dames of America.
(d) Daughters of the American Revolution.
3. According to Tisby, in what organization did MLK start his activist career?
(a) Regional Council of Negro Leadership.
(b) The Montgomery Improvement Society.
(c) Fellowship of Reconciliation.
(d) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
4. During World War I, what role were most Black soldiers assigned?
(a) Officers and lieutenants.
(b) Riflemen and footsoldiers.
(c) Medics and doctors.
(d) Servants and menial laborers.
5. According to Tisby, what text did white Christians primarily use to justify slavery?
(a) The Book of Mormon.
(b) The Bill of Rights.
(c) The US Constitution.
(d) The Bible.
6. What was the term used for the "the "massive migration of whites to the suburbs" (126) to escape racial integration?
(a) White light.
(b) White flight.
(c) White might.
(d) White fright.
7. What was the practice of blockbusting?
(a) Salespeople charged lower prices when selling homes to Black buyers.
(b) Local residents in white communities refused to sell their homes to Black buyers.
(c) Local organization banded together to harass Black residents who tried to move in.
(d) Salespeople used racial fears to persuade white buyers to sell their homes at a loss.
8. What motivated George Pepperdine to found his university?
(a) A desire to create a racially integrated school.
(b) A desire to omit religious teaching from the curriculum.
(c) A desire to train future politicians and leaders.
(d) A desire to provide students with a religious education.
9. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. see as the best prevention for riots?
(a) Creative works.
(b) Higher education.
(c) Strict laws.
(d) Social justice.
10. During Billy Graham's 1953 crusade, he encountered segregated seating at a location where he was scheduled to speak. How did he respond?
(a) He publicly approved of the separation of white and Black attendees.
(b) He ignored the dividing ropes and made no comments about their presence.
(c) He private expressed discomfort, but chose to continue his speech.
(d) He refused to speak unless the ropes dividing attendees were taken down.
11. Who was Ida B .Wells?
(a) An American politician.
(b) A college professor.
(c) An antilynching activist.
(d) A Black physician.
12. How did church leaders in 1950s Georgia propose to "Keep Kirkwood White" (145)?
(a) By voting for politicians who supported segregation.
(b) By staging a letter-writing campaign to a local newspaper.
(c) By refusing to allow Black children to attend local schools.
(d) By urging parishioners not to sell homes to black people.
13. What was a primary goal of "Redeemers" (97)?
(a) To provide Black citizens with land.
(b) To promote racial equality.
(c) To stop Black people from voting.
(d) To enforce segregation laws.
14. Who gave the Cornerstone Speech?
(a) Stephen Douglas.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) Alexander Stephens.
15. What argument was outlined in GT Gillespie's "Christian View of Segregation"?
(a) The Bible directly supports segregation policies.
(b) Segregation is a "natural law" and it should be upheld.
(c) Segregation is against Christian principles and should be challnged.
(d) The Bible directs opposed segregation policies.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Dr. George Edmund Hayes blame for the Red Summer violence?
2. Why did Linda Browns parents originally want to send her to an all-white school?
3. According to Tisby, what belief structure was behind the Lost Cause narrative?
4. Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
5. Why did Presbyterians oppose the Gardener Springs Resolutions?
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