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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What statement is NOT true of Charles Grandison Finney?

2. What year did the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing occur?

3. Which white man married Metoaka, also known as Pocahontas?

4. In Chapter 1, Beverly Daniel Tatum defines racism as a combination of "prejudice" and another factor. What is the second factor?

5. Who were the first Europeans to reach the Americas?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

3. What is the monogenesis theory of humankind?

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

5. In Chapter 4, Tisby outlines arguments that white Christians used to justify slave-ownership. What are some of these arguments?

6. What was the impact of the Missouri Compromise?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring the long-term impact of a person mentioned in the book. How did this person affect race relations in the United States? What role did religious faith or white Christianity play in their life?

Essay Topic 2

What current policies or traditions may stand in the way of racial justice? Write an essay exploring how white churches can address these problems. Use specific examples from The Color of Compromise to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring racial justice within local religious or spiritual communities. In your opinion, do your local communities promote equality and fight racism? Analyze Tisby's recommendations for racial reconciliation. Determine which (if any) your community practices.

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