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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 omit religious teaching from the curriculum.
(b) A desire to create a racially integrated school.
(c) A desire to train future politicians and leaders.
(d) A desire to provide students with a religious education.

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

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

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

5. How many Black people served in the U.S. armed forces during World War I?
(a) About 200,000.
(b) About 250,000.
(c) About 300,000.
(d) About 350,000.

6. Why was it difficult for abolitionists to use the Bible support for their views?
(a) Several Bible passages directly supported slave-ownership.
(b) Their opponents referenced a different version of the Bible.
(c) Many abolitionists were illiterate and unable to read the Bible.
(d) The Bible did not address the morality of slave-ownership.

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

8. According to Tisby, what political system was believed to be associated with the civil rights movement?
(a) Authoritarianism.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Communism.

9. According to James Henley Thornwell, "The church can merely assert what the bible teaches, and must remain silent on that which the bible is silent" (85). What is the name of this doctrine?
(a) The of impartiality the church.
(b) The spirituality of the church.
(c) The serendipity of the church.
(d) The infallibility of the church.

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

11. What was Muhammad Ali's real name?
(a) Cassius Clay.
(b) Ronald Frye.
(c) James Meridith.
(d) Marcus Garvey.

12. 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.

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

14. What was the nickname for the state of Kansas during the years leading up to the Civil War?
(a) Bloody Kansas.
(b) Lawless Kansas.
(c) Fair Kansas.
(d) Wild Kansas.

15. How many people attended the March on Washington DC for Job and Freedom?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 200,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term was used the describe the mixing of different races?

2. What was the name of the president of the National Baptist Convention, often known as the "Negro Pope"?

3. What impact did the Great Depression have on Christian churches?

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

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