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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Following the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, a white lawyer claimed that all white Christians bore some responsibility. What was this lawyer's name?
(a) Charles Morgan Jr.
(b) George Whitefield.
(c) Carolyn DuPont.
(d) Billy Graham.

3. During World War I, what role were most Black soldiers assigned?
(a) Servants and menial laborers.
(b) Medics and doctors.
(c) Officers and lieutenants.
(d) Riflemen and footsoldiers.

4. At the Constitutional Convention, delegates allowed the question of slavery to be set aside for 20 years. What term has been used to describe this compromise?
(a) The Missouri compromise.
(b) The dirty compromise.
(c) The three-fifths compromise.
(d) The Philadelphia compromise.

5. What was the most common cause of death in the Civil War?
(a) Malnutrition.
(b) Disease.
(c) Blood loss.
(d) Dehydration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Tisby use to describe white Christianity's attitude toward racism?

2. Why did lynch mobs in Jim Crow regions often target Black preachers?

3. Who was John Newton?

4. Which piece of legislation prohibited Black people from gathering without white supervision?

5. What year did Martin Luther King, Jr. write "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?

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