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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. How many people died in the Civil War?
(a) 200-400,000.
(b) 500-650,000.
(c) 400-500,000.
(d) 650-850,000.

2. What was an octoroon?
(a) A person who was 1/8th Hispanic.
(b) A person who was 1/8th white.
(c) A person who was 1/8th Native American.
(d) A person who was 1/8th black.

3. During Billy Graham's 1953 crusade, he encountered segregated seating at a location where he was scheduled to speak. How did he respond?
(a) He refused to speak unless the ropes dividing attendees were taken down.
(b) He private expressed discomfort, but chose to continue his speech.
(c) He ignored the dividing ropes and made no comments about their presence.
(d) He publicly approved of the separation of white and Black attendees.

4. What did Sherman's Special Field Order promise black families?
(a) Farmland.
(b) Horses.
(c) Cows.
(d) Money.

5. Who was Ida B .Wells?
(a) A college professor.
(b) An antilynching activist.
(c) An American politician.
(d) A Black physician.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Linda Browns parents originally want to send her to an all-white school?

2. How did white publications like Christianity Today respond to the civil rights movement?

3. In Chapter 7, Tisby speaks about that the "conspicuousness of white supremacy in the south" (129). According to him, what is one side-effect of this phenomenon?

4. What incident led to the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention?

5. What was the nickname for the state of Kansas during the years leading up to the Civil War?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Tisby, how was Jesus depicted in mainstream art during the 1950s and 1960s?

2. What was one domestic outcome of Black involvement in the armed forces during World War I?

3. What was Theodore Bilbo's opinion on racial intermixing?

4. What was the effect of the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee (EEOC)?

5. In Chapter 5, Tisby argues that slavery was both a religious and civil issue. How was slavery a religious issue?

6. In Chapter 8, Tisby argues that white moderates during the civil rights movement failed to understand something about racism. What does he believe they missed?

7. According to Tisby, why did many white Christian moderates support a "law and order" (142) approach over the civil rights movement?

8. According to Tisby, what impact did the inaction of white moderate Christians have on the civil rights movement?

9. How did white churches respond to "white flight' (126)?

10. Some historians and contemporary pundits argue that the Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery. What is Tisby's perspective?

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