QUESTION 1Being passionately committed to helping those who are poorest on Earth is inseparable from caring for the planet, according to John Dear. True FalseQUESTION 2Bartolomé de las Casas insisted that the motivation of the Spanish explorers he witnessed was not truly conversion of the indigenous people but theft of their gold and other resources. True FalseQUESTION 3The Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o describes the complexity of the encounter between Christianity and traditional religious practices, including the importance of maintaining indigenous traditions even after contact with Christianity. True FalseQUESTION 4U.S. fundamentalists are those who see the Bible as the fundamental story of ancient times, but they deny that it is literally or factually the Word of God today. True FalseQUESTION 5Enslaved Africans helped create new, Africanized forms of the Christianity they were taught in the U.S. True FalseQUESTION 6The disruptions, trauma, and chaos experienced by victims of the African slave trade are difficult to overstate. True FalseQUESTION 7U.S. slave owners were eager to instruct and convert their slaves to Christianity. True FalseQUESTION 8In the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), the Catholic Church reaffirmed its commitment to the use of Latin as the only permissible language for worship (mass). True FalseQUESTION 9Bartolomé de las Casas was an aggressive persecutor of the indigenous people in colonial Latin America. True FalseQUESTION 10The Roman doctrine of terra nullius meant that land not being used in the ways the Romans did could legally be considered “empty” and available for conquest. True FalseQUESTION 11Though some slaves in the U.S. were able to retain aspects of their African traditions intact, many others experienced the Middle Passage as having disrupted or broken their connection to their heritage and ancestors. True FalseQUESTION 12Churches in the 19th century were central to abolitionism, and black churches remained centers of African-American moral power, havens of dignity, and incubators of political visions of justice into the 20th century. True FalseQUESTION 13Two papal bulls of the 15th century extended the Roman doctrine of terra nullius to give legal and spiritual legitimation to European claims of sovereignty over the lands they “discovered” in the rest of the world. True FalseQUESTION 14The Scopes trial was an early instance of the battle still continuing today between those who want to have a biblical account of creation taught in public schools, vs. those who want evolution taught. True False

QUESTION 1

1. Being passionately committed to helping those who are poorest on Earth is inseparable from caring for the planet, according to John Dear.

   True False

QUESTION 2

1. Bartolomé de las Casas insisted that the motivation of the Spanish explorers he witnessed was not truly conversion of the indigenous people but theft of their gold and other resources.

   True False

QUESTION 3

1. The Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o describes the complexity of the encounter between Christianity and traditional religious practices, including the importance of maintaining indigenous traditions even after contact with Christianity.

   True False

QUESTION 4

1. U.S. fundamentalists are those who see the Bible as the fundamental story of ancient times, but they deny that it is literally or factually the Word of God today.

   True False

QUESTION 5

1. Enslaved Africans helped create new, Africanized forms of the Christianity they were taught in the U.S.

   True False

QUESTION 6

1. The disruptions, trauma, and chaos experienced by victims of the African slave trade are difficult to overstate.

   True False

QUESTION 7

1. U.S. slave owners were eager to instruct and convert their slaves to Christianity.

   True False

QUESTION 8

1. In the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), the Catholic Church reaffirmed its commitment to the use of Latin as the only permissible language for worship (mass).

   True False

QUESTION 9

1. Bartolomé de las Casas was an aggressive persecutor of the indigenous people in colonial Latin America.

   True False

QUESTION 10

1. The Roman doctrine of terra nullius meant that land not being used in the ways the Romans did could legally be considered “empty” and available for conquest.

   True False

QUESTION 11

1. Though some slaves in the U.S. were able to retain aspects of their African traditions intact, many others experienced the Middle Passage as having disrupted or broken their connection to their heritage and ancestors.

   True False

QUESTION 12

1. Churches in the 19^th century were central to abolitionism, and black churches remained centers of African-American moral power, havens of dignity, and incubators of political visions of justice into the 20^th century.

   True False

QUESTION 13

1. Two papal bulls of the 15^th century extended the Roman doctrine of terra nullius to give legal and spiritual legitimation to European claims of sovereignty over the lands they “discovered” in the rest of the world.

   True False

QUESTION 14

1. The Scopes trial was an early instance of the battle still continuing today between those who want to have a biblical account of creation taught in public schools, vs. those who want evolution taught.

   True False