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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. The Home Owners' Loan Corporation color-coded maps so mortgage lenders could assess risk. What discriminatory practice did these maps lead to?
(a) Blue-zoning.
(b) Blue-blocking.
(c) Redspotting.
(d) Redlining.

2. What led to the split of the Methodist Episcopal Church?
(a) A slave-owning bishop refused to either resign or give up his slaves.
(b) A slave-owning parishioner was excommunicated from the church.
(c) The church congregation argued over a piece of political legislation.
(d) The church congregation disagreed on the question of segregation.

3. What term was used the describe the mixing of different races?
(a) Revitalization.
(b) Acclimatization.
(c) Mongrelization.
(d) Regionalization.

4. What was the term for the system that allowed Southern states to "hire out" prisoners to private companies?
(a) Chattel slavery.
(b) Indentured servitude.
(c) Convict-leasing.
(d) Prisoner-rental.

5. According to Tisby, what text did white Christians primarily use to justify slavery?
(a) The Book of Mormon.
(b) The Bill of Rights.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The US Constitution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What argument was outlined in GT Gillespie's "Christian View of Segregation"?

2. According to Tisby, what organization worked to erect Confederate monuments after the Civil War?

3. What word did white Southerners use to describe their attempt to regain power after the Civil War?

4. What was the practice of blockbusting?

5. Which president established the Freedman's Bureau?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Theodore Bilbo's opinion on racial intermixing?

2. What happened in the Watts neighborhood of LA in 1965?

3. Why did many Christian fundamentalists oppose political involvement?

4. When Martin Luther King, Jr. was jailed following a protest in Birmingham, eight white clergymen wrote to him. What did they ask him to do?

5. In Chapter 5, Tisby argues that slavery was both a religious and civil issue. How was slavery a religious issue?

6. Following Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka, some white parents chose to send their children to private schools. What motivated this decision?

7. What was the purpose of the Freeman's Bureau?

8. In Chapter 8, Tisby discusses several parts of Martin Luther King Jr.'s platform that were considered controversial among white moderate Christians. Which of his beliefs did white moderates often find objectionable?

9. What was the effect of the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee (EEOC)?

10. According to Tisby, what were some of the "radical" messages Martin Luther King, Jr. supported?

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