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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the term for the mass movement of Black people from the South?
(a) The Great Exodus.
(b) The Great Migration.
(c) The Great Segregation.
(d) The Great Division.

2. Where did Emmett Till's murder occur?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Georgia.

3. Which constitutional amendment freed all enslaved people in the United States?
(a) The 13th.
(b) The 11th.
(c) The 14th.
(d) The 12th.

4. 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.

5. What led to the split of the Methodist Episcopal Church?
(a) The church congregation disagreed on the question of segregation.
(b) A slave-owning parishioner was excommunicated from the church.
(c) The church congregation argued over a piece of political legislation.
(d) A slave-owning bishop refused to either resign or give up his slaves.

6. What was an octoroon?
(a) A person who was 1/8th Hispanic.
(b) A person who was 1/8th Native American.
(c) A person who was 1/8th black.
(d) A person who was 1/8th white.

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

8. Who coined the phrase, "Black Power"?
(a) Stokey Carmichael.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Muhammed Ali.
(d) Martin Luther King, Sr.

9. Which president established the Freedman's Bureau?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Andrew Johnson.
(c) James Buchanan.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

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

11. What was a side effect of the Fugitive Slave Act?
(a) Black people were prohibited from entering free states.
(b) Abolitionist groups received additional funding.
(c) Black people could be captured and enslaved, even in free states.
(d) Slave-oweners lost some of their authority over enslaved people.

12. What argument was outlined in GT Gillespie's "Christian View of Segregation"?
(a) The Bible directs opposed 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 directly supports segregation policies.

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

14. According to Tisby, what kind of organization is the KKK?
(a) A Democratic organization.
(b) A Christian organization.
(c) A Republican organization.
(d) A Jewish organization.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Tisby, what belief structure was behind the Lost Cause narrative?

2. According to Tisby, what organization worked to erect Confederate monuments after the Civil War?

3. What did Dr. George Edmund Hayes blame for the Red Summer violence?

4. During Billy Graham's 1953 crusade, he encountered segregated seating at a location where he was scheduled to speak. How did he respond?

5. What was the result of Plessy vs. Ferguson?

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