While Masters Expected Christianity to Make Slaves Obedient and Peaceful

question 74

Multiple Choice

While masters expected Christianity to make slaves obedient and peaceful, slaves subverted their masters' expectations by __________.

• A) holding nighttime prayer meetings and developing forms of religious expression that reflected their longings for freedom and justice
• B) secretly practicing African religions while only pretending to be Christian
• C) reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and Greek and rejecting their masters' English translations
• D) using African traditions to "revoke" any Christian practices they were made to do publicly to appease their masters

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Definitions:

Input Prices

The cost of resources used in the production of goods and services.

MRTS

Marginal Rate of Technical Substitution, the rate at which one factor must decrease as another increases to keep output constant.

Isoquant Map

An isoquant map is a graph showing combinations of inputs that yield the same level of output, used in economics to depict production efficiencies and substitutability between inputs.

Printing Presses

Machines used for transferring text and images onto paper or similar materials, pivotal in the history of publishing and information dissemination.