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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. Who were the first Europeans to reach the Americas?
(a) The Scandinavians.
(b) The Spanish.
(c) The German.
(d) The English.

2. What usually happened to enslaved people who were caught trying to escape?
(a) They were fined.
(b) They were imprisoned.
(c) They were hanged.
(d) They were exiled.

3. 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) Carolyn DuPont.
(b) Billy Graham.
(c) Charles Morgan Jr.
(d) George Whitefield.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was John Newton?

3. In the 1800s, the global demand for which product helped fuel the north American slave trade?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

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

7. What is the monogenesis theory of humankind?

8. What was the impact of the Missouri Compromise?

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

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

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