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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 group received additional rights after the Revolutionary War?
(a) Black people.
(b) White landowners.
(c) White women.
(d) Native Americans.

2. In Chapter 1, Beverly Daniel Tatum defines racism as a combination of "prejudice" and another factor. What is the second factor?
(a) Power.
(b) Planning.
(c) Ethnicity.
(d) Bigotry.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What historical period coincided with the decline of slavery in Britain?

3. When was the first Black Episcopal Church established in New York City?

4. How does Tisby categorize his book, The Color of Compromise?

5. Who was John Newton?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was the impact of the Missouri Compromise?

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

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

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