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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which organization decided in the 1600s that baptism would not free enslaved people?
(a) The United Daughters of the Confederacy.
(b) The Pentecostal Fellowship of North America.
(c) The Progressive National Baptist Convention.
(d) The Virginia General Assembly.

2. In Chapter 1, Beverly Daniel Tatum defines racism as a combination of "prejudice" and another factor. What is the second factor?
(a) Power.
(b) Planning.
(c) Bigotry.
(d) Ethnicity.

3. How many people perished during the Middle Passage?
(a) About 1 million.
(b) About 750,000.
(c) About 500,000.
(d) About 2 million.

4. According to Tisby, when did Christianity arrive in Africa?
(a) The 3rd-4th century.
(b) The 7th-8th century.
(c) The 1st-2nd century.
(d) The 5th-6th century.

5. What was the term used for workers who were bound to their employer until they paid off a debt?
(a) Indentured servants.
(b) Chattel slaves.
(c) Bond slaves.
(d) Domestic servants.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Tisby, what is required to achieve "reconciliation" (15)?

2. What term does Tisby use to describe Christianity that "embraces racial and ethnic diversity" (24)?

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

4. What year did the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing occur?

5. Which activist claimed that, "There can be no deep disappointment without deep love" (19)?

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