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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which enslaved person wrote an autobiography chronicling his experiences in the Middle Passage?

2. How many people attended the Cane Ridge Revival?

3. Which revivalist preacher used profits from slave labor to build an orphanage?

4. Which English philosopher's work influenced the Declaration of Independence?

5. What was the Haitian Revolution?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the monogenesis theory of humankind?

2. Concerning slavery, what was meant by the term "natural increase" (33)?

3. What decisions were made at the Baptist General Committee of Virginia in 1790?

4. What evangelical Christian doctrines, outlined by Tisby in Chapter 3, can prevent these churches from taking a stance on social justice issues?

5. In Chapter 4, Tisby outlines arguments that white Christians used to justify slave-ownership. What are some of these arguments?

6. What was the impact of Nat Turner's rebellion?

7. Why did some slaveowners prefer to enslave Africans rather than Native Americans, as explained by Tisby?

8. What was the impact of the Missouri Compromise?

9. Why did the Episcopalian diocese originally refuse to admit St. Philip's church?

10. Why did Johnathan Edwards oppose the African slave-trade?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring racial justice within local religious or spiritual communities. In your opinion, do your local communities promote equality and fight racism? Analyze Tisby's recommendations for racial reconciliation. Determine which (if any) your community practices.

Essay Topic 2

Tisby draws a distinction between "complicit Christianity" and "courageous Christianity." Write a compare-and-contrast essay analyzing these terms. What is the main difference between the two concepts? How can white Christians practice "courageous Christianity"?

Essay Topic 3

Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Write an essay drawing connections between this letter and The Color Of Compromise. Which of King's arguments are reflected in Tisby's book?

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