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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. What was the name of the group who fought for the rights of Black people in the Reconstruction Era?
(a) Dedicated Democrats.
(b) Modern Abolitionists.
(c) Freedom Riders.
(d) Radical Republicans.

2. What was Muhammad Ali's real name?
(a) Cassius Clay.
(b) Ronald Frye.
(c) Marcus Garvey.
(d) James Meridith.

3. Following the Civil War, what part of the U.S. had the largest number of Catholics?
(a) The Midwest.
(b) The South.
(c) The East Coast.
(d) The West Coast.

4. Which constitutional amendment freed all enslaved people in the United States?
(a) The 12th.
(b) The 11th.
(c) The 13th.
(d) The 14th.

5. Which book of the Bible contains the "Curse of Ham" (82) passage?
(a) Exodus.
(b) Leviticus.
(c) Revelations.
(d) Genesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK?

2. Which professions were excluded from receiving Social Security?

3. What was an octoroon?

4. Beginning in the 1930s, many Black Americans grew disillusioned with racism in Christian churches. What religion did some Black people turn to?

5. What was the term for the mass movement of Black people from the South?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the "social gospel," as outlined in Chapter 7?

3. Following the Scopes Trial of 1925, what did many white Christians fear?

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

6. Some historians and contemporary pundits argue that the Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery. What is Tisby's perspective?

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

8. How did many white moderates in the 1960s believe that racism should be addressed?

9. After World War II, the government introduced the GI bill to help returning soldiers. How did the treatment of Black and white veterans differ?

10. According to Tisby, how did most white Christian moderates responds to the civil rights movement?

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