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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. According to Tisby, which of the following statements about Thomas Jefferson is NOT true?
(a) He opposed racial equality.
(b) He drafted the Declaration of Independence.
(c) He was a slave-owner.
(d) He was an abolitionist.

2. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, which regions received the largest number of enslaved persons?
(a) North and Central America.
(b) Africa and Australia.
(c) The Caribbean and South America.
(d) Europe and Asia.

3. Which revivalist preacher used profits from slave labor to build an orphanage?
(a) George Whitefield.
(b) Jonathan Edwards.
(c) Solomon Stoddard.
(d) Richard Allen.

4. What was the name of the Black writer who published an autobiography in 1861, detailing her experiences as a enslaved girl?
(a) Hannah Crafts.
(b) Harriet Jacobs.
(c) Soujourner Truth.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

5. What was the term for secret places where enslaved Blacks met to worship?
(a) Hidden chambers.
(b) Confidential gardens.
(c) Hush arbors.
(d) Quiet lanes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first Black preacher ordained in America?

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

3. Which enslaved person wrote an autobiography chronicling his experiences in the Middle Passage?

4. What year did the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing occur?

5. Which group received additional rights after the Revolutionary War?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did some white Christians hesitate to baptize enslaved people?

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 4, Tisby outlines arguments that white Christians used to justify slave-ownership. What are some of these arguments?

6. What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

7. Why did Johnathan Edwards oppose the African slave-trade?

8. What is the monogenesis theory of humankind?

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

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

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