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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religious beliefs did enslaved Blacks hold upon their arrival in North America?
(a) They practiced indigenous religions native to Africa.
(b) They were primarily Jewish and Islamic.
(c) They had no religious beliefs of their own.
(d) They had already converted to the Christian faith.

2. What was the impact of chattel slavery on Black families?
(a) It allowed married couples to free their children.
(b) It kept couples together, but separated children.
(c) It usually kept families intact.
(d) It frequently broke up families.

3. According to slave codes, what determined whether a child was born free or enslaved?
(a) The father's religion.
(b) The father's slave status.
(c) The mother's slave status.
(d) The mother's religion.

4. 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) Billy Graham.
(b) George Whitefield.
(c) Charles Morgan Jr.
(d) Carolyn DuPont.

5. Which Black preacher helped found the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
(a) Jesse Jackson.
(b) Richard Allen.
(c) Richard R. Jones.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

6. What year did the Haitian Revolution take place?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1764.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1791.

7. Which activist claimed that, "There can be no deep disappointment without deep love" (19)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Rosa Parks.

8. What was the name of the Black writer who published an autobiography in 1861, detailing her experiences as a enslaved girl?
(a) Hannah Crafts.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) Harriet Jacobs.
(d) Soujourner Truth.

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

10. According to Tisby, what is required to achieve "reconciliation" (15)?
(a) Repentence.
(b) Anger.
(c) Grief.
(d) Acceptance.

11. What was the first higher education institution to accept women and Black people?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Oberlin College.
(c) St. John's College.
(d) Stanford University.

12. Which of the following is NOT a social issue the Benevolent Empire sought to address?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Abortion.
(c) Abolitionism.
(d) Poverty.

13. 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 Philadelphia compromise.
(c) The dirty compromise.
(d) The three-fifths compromise.

14. Which group received additional rights after the Revolutionary War?
(a) Native Americans.
(b) Black people.
(c) White women.
(d) White landowners.

15. How many enslaved people were transported from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 5 million.
(d) 15 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the Articles of Confederation ratified?

2. According to Tisby, what did Christianity become for enslaved Blacks?

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

4. According to Tisby, what attracted most Black people to Christianity during the Colonial era?

5. Who was the first Black preacher ordained in America?

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