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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the most common cause of death in the Civil War?
(a) Dehydration.
(b) Malnutrition.
(c) Blood loss.
(d) Disease.

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

4. What term was used the describe the mixing of different races?
(a) Regionalization.
(b) Mongrelization.
(c) Revitalization.
(d) Acclimatization.

5. What year did Martin Luther King, Jr. write "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1964.

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

7. Who spearheaded the revival of the KKK in the early 1900s?
(a) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) Thomas Dixon Jr.
(c) Lyndon Johnson.
(d) D.W. Griffith.

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

9. Why did Presbyterians oppose the Gardener Springs Resolutions?
(a) They believed it was wrong for the church to pledge loyalty to any one political system.
(b) They believed it was wrong for Christians to support slave-owning or segregated policies.
(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.

10. Who was the first Black Catholic priest in the United States?
(a) Clarence Rivers.
(b) Augustus Tolton.
(c) Daniel Rudd.
(d) Joseph M. Davis.

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

12. Beginning in the 1930s, many Black Americans grew disillusioned with racism in Christian churches. What religion did some Black people turn to?
(a) Taoism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Buddhism.

13. How many people died in the Civil War?
(a) 200-400,000.
(b) 500-650,000.
(c) 650-850,000.
(d) 400-500,000.

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

15. 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 easier for residents in the North to confront racism.
(c) It is harder for citizens in the South to understand history.
(d) It is easier for racism in other parts of the country to go unnoticed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did lynch mobs in Jim Crow regions often target Black preachers?

2. What was the impact of the Dred Scott Decision?

3. What statement does Tisby make about President Lincoln?

4. What incident led to the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention?

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

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