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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Columbus view the native inhabitants of the Americas?
(a) As fellow citizens.
(b) As skilled laborers.
(c) As spiritual equals.
(d) As potential slaves.

2. How does Tisby perceive racism?
(a) As a mystery.
(b) As an inevitability.
(c) As a historical myth.
(d) As a social construct.

3. What term does Tisby use to describe Christianity that "embraces racial and ethnic diversity" (24)?
(a) Conscientious Chrsitianity.
(b) Complacent Christianity.
(c) Courageous Christianity.
(d) Complicit Christianity.

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

5. Who were the first Europeans to reach the Americas?
(a) The English.
(b) The Scandinavians.
(c) The German.
(d) The Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tisby categorize his book, The Color of Compromise?

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

3. What was the term used for workers who were bound to their employer until they paid off a debt?

4. Which organization decided in the 1600s that baptism would not free enslaved people?

5. How many people perished during the Middle Passage?

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