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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. What was the name of the Black writer who published an autobiography in 1861, detailing her experiences as a enslaved girl?
2. According to Tisby, during which period of American history did race NOT determine a person's station in society?
3. Following the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, a white lawyer claimed that all white Christians bore some responsibility. What was this lawyer's name?
4. How many people perished during the Middle Passage?
5. What was the first higher education institution to accept women and Black people?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Johnathan Edwards oppose the African slave-trade?
2. What was the impact of the Missouri Compromise?
3. What is the monogenesis theory of humankind?
4. What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
5. Concerning slavery, what was meant by the term "natural increase" (33)?
6. What decisions were made at the Baptist General Committee of Virginia in 1790?
7. What evangelical Christian doctrines, outlined by Tisby in Chapter 3, can prevent these churches from taking a stance on social justice issues?
8. Many white Christians believe that individual conversation and a spiritual awakening will naturally lead to racial equality. What is Tisby's perspective?
9. Why did some white Christians hesitate to baptize enslaved people?
10. Why did the Episcopalian diocese originally refuse to admit St. Philip's church?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Color of Comprise includes many vivid descriptions of historical events. Choose one event that stood out to you. Write an essay exploring how Tisby uses descriptive language to bring his writing to life.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring how Tisby's personal religious background may affect the content of his book. How does his Christianity affect his core message? How might the book have been different if it were written by a secular author? In your view, does Tisby's religious background strengthen his message or weaken it?
Essay Topic 3
Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." How does this text reflect the attitudes of contemporary white churches? In an argumentative essay, explore whether the behavior King described in the 1960s has changed or stayed the same.
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