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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. How did white publications like Christianity Today respond to the civil rights movement?
(a) They openly opposed the movement and urged readers to do the same.
(b) They remained silent and refused to endorse the movement.
(c) They publicly opposed the movement, but donated money to the cause.
(d) They publicly supported the movement and published favorable articles.

2. What punishment was imposed on free citizens who failed to assist the authorities in capturing a runaway slave?
(a) They were executed.
(b) They were fined $1,000.
(c) They were imprisoned.
(d) They were stripped of U.S. citizenship.

3. Which professions were excluded from receiving Social Security?
(a) Factory workers.
(b) Domestic workers.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Soldiers.

4. What was the term for the mass movement of Black people from the South?
(a) The Great Exodus.
(b) The Great Segregation.
(c) The Great Migration.
(d) The Great Division.

5. What argument was outlined in GT Gillespie's "Christian View of Segregation"?
(a) The Bible directs opposed segregation policies.
(b) Segregation is a "natural law" and it should be upheld.
(c) Segregation is against Christian principles and should be challnged.
(d) The Bible directly supports segregation policies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which state was the first to secede from the Union?

2. Which president established the Freedman's Bureau?

3. What was Muhammad Ali's real name?

4. According to Tisby, what political system was believed to be associated with the civil rights movement?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did white Christians use the "curse of Ham" (82) passage to justify slavery?

7. According to Tisby, how was Jesus depicted in mainstream art during the 1950s and 1960s?

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

9. Why did many Christian fundamentalists oppose political involvement?

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

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