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

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

3. Who gave the Cornerstone Speech?
(a) Stephen Douglas.
(b) Alexander Stephens.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Jefferson Davis.

4. Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
(a) Georgia.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Virginia .

5. What was the outcome of the Methodist General Conference of 1808?
(a) Regional congregations could not take a public position on the issue of slavery.
(b) Regional congregations were required to oppose slavery in every parish.
(c) Regional congreations could make their own decision on the issue of slavery.
(d) Regional congregations were required to support slavery in every parish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which president established the Freedman's Bureau?

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

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

4. How did white publications like Christianity Today respond to the civil rights movement?

5. According to Tisby, what kind of organization is the KKK?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the Freedom Riders?

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. What were "sundown towns"?

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

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

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

7. In Chapter 6, Tisby discusses the "Lost Cause" narrative. How did this narrative view white Southerners living in pre-Civil War communities?

8. 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?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 697 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample