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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. In the 1800s, the global demand for which product helped fuel the north American slave trade?
(a) Steel.
(b) Wool.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Oil.

2. According to slave codes, what determined whether a child was born free or enslaved?
(a) The father's religion.
(b) The mother's slave status.
(c) The mother's religion.
(d) The father's slave status.

3. What year did the Haitian Revolution take place?
(a) 1764.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1791.

4. What religious beliefs did enslaved Blacks hold upon their arrival in North America?
(a) They had already converted to the Christian faith.
(b) They were primarily Jewish and Islamic.
(c) They had no religious beliefs of their own.
(d) They practiced indigenous religions native to Africa.

5. How many enslaved people were transported from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade?
(a) 5 million.
(b) 15 million.
(c) 20 million.
(d) 10 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people perished during the Middle Passage?

2. According to Tisby, during which period of American history did race NOT determine a person's station in society?

3. When were the Articles of Confederation ratified?

4. According to Tisby, what attracted most Black people to Christianity during the Colonial era?

5. What year did the Constitutional Convention take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the monogenesis theory of humankind?

3. What was the Fugitive Slave Clause?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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