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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Tisby, how did most enslaved Blacks respond to the rise of Christian revivalist preachers in the 1700s?
(a) They adopted Chrsitianity and made it their own.
(b) They considered Christianity, but chose another religion.
(c) They rejected Christianity and refused to convert.
(d) They converted to Christianity and integrated into white churches.

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

3. In the 1800s, the global demand for which product helped fuel the north American slave trade?
(a) Steel.
(b) Wool.
(c) Oil.
(d) Cotton.

4. Which white man married Metoaka, also known as Pocahontas?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Rolfe.
(d) George Washington.

5. How did enslaved Blacks share messages about possible escape plans?
(a) In newspapers.
(b) In songs.
(c) In letters.
(d) In telegrams.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people attended the Cane Ridge Revival?

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

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

4. What was the term used for the religious movement that emphasized a personal encounter with God?

5. Following the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, a white lawyer claimed that all white Christians bore some responsibility. What was this lawyer's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which demographic groups benefitted most from the original Constitution?

2. What is the monogenesis theory of humankind?

3. Many white Christians believe that individual conversation and a spiritual awakening will naturally lead to racial equality. What is Tisby's perspective?

4. Why did the Episcopalian diocese originally refuse to admit St. Philip's church?

5. Why did some slaveowners prefer to enslave Africans rather than Native Americans, as explained by Tisby?

6. Why did some white Christians hesitate to baptize enslaved people?

7. What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

8. What was the impact of Nat Turner's rebellion?

9. What was the concept of "hereditary heathenism," outlined by Tisby in Chapter 2?

10. Concerning slavery, what was meant by the term "natural increase" (33)?

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