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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What motivated George Pepperdine to found his university?
(a) A desire to provide students with a religious education.
(b) A desire to create a racially integrated school.
(c) A desire to omit religious teaching from the curriculum.
(d) A desire to train future politicians and leaders.

2. How did church leaders in 1950s Georgia propose to "Keep Kirkwood White" (145)?
(a) By refusing to allow Black children to attend local schools.
(b) By voting for politicians who supported segregation.
(c) By staging a letter-writing campaign to a local newspaper.
(d) By urging parishioners not to sell homes to black people.

3. What was the name of the group who fought for the rights of Black people in the Reconstruction Era?
(a) Dedicated Democrats.
(b) Freedom Riders.
(c) Radical Republicans.
(d) Modern Abolitionists.

4. What famous silent film claimed to present the story of the KKK's establishment?
(a) Broken Blossoms.
(b) The Birth of a Nation.
(c) A Corner in Wheat.
(d) The Fugitive.

5. According to Tisby, what text did white Christians primarily use to justify slavery?
(a) The Book of Mormon.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The US Constitution.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

6. What was the outcome of the Methodist General Conference of 1808?
(a) Regional congregations were required to oppose slavery in every parish.
(b) Regional congregations were required to support slavery in every parish.
(c) Regional congreations could make their own decision on the issue of slavery.
(d) Regional congregations could not take a public position on the issue of slavery.

7. Why did lynch mobs in Jim Crow regions often target Black preachers?
(a) Preachers had considerable influence in Black communities.
(b) Preachers had publicly confronted former slaver-owners.
(c) Preachers had refused to get involved in political matters.
(d) Preachers had joined an organization designed to stop segregation

8. Which professions were excluded from receiving Social Security?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Domestic workers.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Factory workers.

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

10. How did white publications like Christianity Today respond to the civil rights movement?
(a) They remained silent and refused to endorse the movement.
(b) They openly opposed the movement and urged readers to do the same.
(c) They publicly supported the movement and published favorable articles.
(d) They publicly opposed the movement, but donated money to the cause.

11. Who was Ida B .Wells?
(a) A Black physician.
(b) A college professor.
(c) An antilynching activist.
(d) An American politician.

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

13. 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.

14. Why did Presbyterians oppose the Gardener Springs Resolutions?
(a) They believed it was wrong for Christians to support slave-owning or segregated policies.
(b) They believed it was wrong for the church to pledge loyalty to any one political system.
(c) They believed it was wrong for Black people to seek admittance into white congregations.
(d) They believed it was wrong for preachers to develop their own sermons and speeches.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What punishment was imposed on free citizens who failed to assist the authorities in capturing a runaway slave?

2. Beginning in the 1930s, many Black Americans grew disillusioned with racism in Christian churches. What religion did some Black people turn to?

3. What year were was the Gardener Springs Resolutions introduced?

4. Which president established the Freedman's Bureau?

5. Who was the first Black Catholic priest in the United States?

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