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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) Freedom Riders.
(c) Modern Abolitionists.
(d) Radical Republicans.

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) The church congregation argued over a piece of political legislation.
(c) The church congregation disagreed on the question of segregation.
(d) A slave-owning parishioner was excommunicated from the church.

3. Who spearheaded the revival of the KKK in the early 1900s?
(a) Thomas Dixon Jr.
(b) Lyndon Johnson.
(c) Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) D.W. Griffith.

4. What motivated George Pepperdine to found his university?
(a) A desire to create a racially integrated school.
(b) A desire to omit religious teaching from the curriculum.
(c) A desire to train future politicians and leaders.
(d) A desire to provide students with a religious education.

5. Which president established the Freedman's Bureau?
(a) James Buchanan.
(b) Andrew Johnson.
(c) Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a primary goal of "Redeemers" (97)?

2. During World War I, what role were most Black soldiers assigned?

3. How did church leaders in 1950s Georgia propose to "Keep Kirkwood White" (145)?

4. Why was it difficult for abolitionists to use the Bible support for their views?

5. What was the most common cause of death in the Civil War?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. In Chapter 8, Tisby argues that white moderates during the civil rights movement failed to understand something about racism. What does he believe they missed?

4. What was the "separate but equal" doctrine (133)?

5. Who were the Freedom Riders?

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

7. According to Tisby, what is the primary difference between biblical slavery and chattel slavery?

8. How did white churches respond to "white flight' (126)?

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

10. 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?

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