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

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

3. How many Black people served in the U.S. armed forces during World War I?
(a) About 250,000.
(b) About 200,000.
(c) About 350,000.
(d) About 300,000.

4. During Billy Graham's 1953 crusade, he encountered segregated seating at a location where he was scheduled to speak. How did he respond?
(a) He ignored the dividing ropes and made no comments about their presence.
(b) He refused to speak unless the ropes dividing attendees were taken down.
(c) He publicly approved of the separation of white and Black attendees.
(d) He private expressed discomfort, but chose to continue his speech.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people died in the Civil War?

2. Where did Emmett Till's murder occur?

3. What was an octoroon?

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

5. Which constitutional amendment freed all enslaved people in the United States?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What were "sundown towns"?

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

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

8. Who were the Freedom Riders?

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

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

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