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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) Minneapolis.
(b) Detroit.
(c) New York City.
(d) Chicago.

2. Why did lynch mobs in Jim Crow regions often target Black preachers?
(a) Preachers had considerable influence in Black communities.
(b) Preachers had refused to get involved in political matters.
(c) Preachers had publicly confronted former slaver-owners.
(d) Preachers had joined an organization designed to stop segregation

3. Why was it difficult for abolitionists to use the Bible support for their views?
(a) Their opponents referenced a different version of the Bible.
(b) Several Bible passages directly supported slave-ownership.
(c) The Bible did not address the morality of slave-ownership.
(d) Many abolitionists were illiterate and unable to read the Bible.

4. What word did white Southerners use to describe their attempt to regain power after the Civil War?
(a) Vindication.
(b) Reclamation.
(c) Absolution.
(d) Redemption.

5. What statement does Tisby make about President Lincoln?
(a) He was an effective leader.
(b) He was a slave-owner.
(c) He was not in favor of racial equality.
(d) He was a passionate abolitionist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous silent film claimed to present the story of the KKK's establishment?

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

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

4. Which professions were excluded from receiving Social Security?

5. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. see as the best prevention for riots?

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. What was the result of the Compromise of 1877?

3. 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?

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

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

6. What was the "Grandfather Clause"?

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

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

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

10. Following the Scopes Trial of 1925, what did many white Christians fear?

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