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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. Which activist claimed that, "There can be no deep disappointment without deep love" (19)?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

2. What was the term used for the religious movement that emphasized a personal encounter with God?
(a) The Great Awakening.
(b) The Rise of Christianity.
(c) The Protestant Revival.
(d) The Triumph of Evangelism.

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

4. How does Tisby perceive racism?
(a) As a historical myth.
(b) As an inevitability.
(c) As a social construct.
(d) As a mystery.

5. What was the impact of chattel slavery on Black families?
(a) It frequently broke up families.
(b) It usually kept families intact.
(c) It kept couples together, but separated children.
(d) It allowed married couples to free their children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which for the following is NOT a reason Robert Finley cited in his proposal to send Black people back to Africa?

2. Which church leader helped found The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG)?

3. According to Tisby's statistical evidence, which modern American demographic is most likely to be religious?

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

5. According to Tisby, what is required to achieve "reconciliation" (15)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

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

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

4. Why did the Episcopalian diocese originally refuse to admit St. Philip's church?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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