View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which northern city was chosen as the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sothern Christian Leadership Conference?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Detroit.
(c) New York City.
(d) Minneapolis.

2. Who coined the phrase, "Black Power"?
(a) Stokey Carmichael.
(b) Martin Luther King, Sr.
(c) Muhammed Ali.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. What was the term for the bloody racial conflict that gripped the South during 1919?
(a) The Summer of Death.
(b) The Summer of Ruin.
(c) The Bleak Summer.
(d) The Red Summer.

4. What was the term used for the "the "massive migration of whites to the suburbs" (126) to escape racial integration?
(a) White fright.
(b) White light.
(c) White might.
(d) White flight.

5. What was the name of the president of the National Baptist Convention, often known as the "Negro Pope"?
(a) Gardner Calvin Taylor
(b) L. Venchael Booth
(c) Rev. Joseph H. Jackson
(d) Benjamin Mays

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people died in the Civil War?

2. According to Tisby, in what organization did MLK start his activist career?

3. What was a side effect of the Fugitive Slave Act?

4. Who was the first black U.S. senator?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Tisby, what impact did the inaction of white moderate Christians have on the civil rights movement?

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

3. Who were the Freedom Riders?

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

5. 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?

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

7. What prompted William J. Seymour's religious activities?

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

9. 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?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 690 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample