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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Following the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, a white lawyer claimed that all white Christians bore some responsibility. What was this lawyer's name?
(a) Billy Graham.
(b) George Whitefield.
(c) Carolyn DuPont.
(d) Charles Morgan Jr.

2. How did enslaved Blacks share messages about possible escape plans?
(a) In songs.
(b) In telegrams.
(c) In letters.
(d) In newspapers.

3. Which Black preacher helped found the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
(a) Jesse Jackson.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Richard R. Jones.
(d) Richard Allen.

4. Which organization decided in the 1600s that baptism would not free enslaved people?
(a) The Progressive National Baptist Convention.
(b) The United Daughters of the Confederacy.
(c) The Pentecostal Fellowship of North America.
(d) The Virginia General Assembly.

5. What term does Tisby use to describe Christianity that "embraces racial and ethnic diversity" (24)?
(a) Courageous Christianity.
(b) Conscientious Chrsitianity.
(c) Complacent Christianity.
(d) Complicit Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people perished during the Middle Passage?

2. What was the term used for workers who were bound to their employer until they paid off a debt?

3. What religious beliefs did enslaved Blacks hold upon their arrival in North America?

4. What year did the Constitutional Convention take place?

5. According to Tisby, which of the following statements about Thomas Jefferson is NOT true?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the impact of Nat Turner's rebellion?

2. What decisions were made at the Baptist General Committee of Virginia in 1790?

3. What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

4. What evangelical Christian doctrines, outlined by Tisby in Chapter 3, can prevent these churches from taking a stance on social justice issues?

5. Many white Christians believe that individual conversation and a spiritual awakening will naturally lead to racial equality. What is Tisby's perspective?

6. What was the concept of "hereditary heathenism," outlined by Tisby in Chapter 2?

7. What is the monogenesis theory of humankind?

8. Concerning slavery, what was meant by the term "natural increase" (33)?

9. Why did some slaveowners prefer to enslave Africans rather than Native Americans, as explained by Tisby?

10. Which demographic groups benefitted most from the original Constitution?

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