11. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 11: Debating Abolition

**Quiz for Document 11.3: Stephen Symonds Foster, The Brotherhood of Thieves (1843)**

Quiz for Document 11.3: Stephen Symonds Foster, The Brotherhood of Thieves (1843)

Document 11.3: Stephen Symonds Foster, The Brotherhood of Thieves (1843)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 11.7

1. In The Brotherhood of Thieves, Stephen Symonds Foster makes a forceful argument about his belief that

Americans who embrace and follow Christian precepts are ignorant and backward.

American churches and the clergy are criminal because they are complicit in slavery.

Only those ministers who denounce the churches of the American South are truly Christian.

Most pious Americans are blind followers of religion and do not understand slavery.

Question 11.8

2. In order to make his point most effectively, Stephen Symonds Foster employed which of the following tones in his writing?

Gentle and instructive

Angry and inflammatory

Sad and pleading

Joyful and celebratory

Question 11.9

3. Stephen Symonds Foster’s writings and speeches, like The Brotherhood of Thieves, often incited violence from the readers or listeners because his work

questioned the existence of God and encouraged Americans to embrace secularism.

suggested that the Roman Catholic Church was less corrupt than Protestant churches.

asserted that the slaves would be saved on Judgment Day while slave owners would go to hell.

repudiated the morality and legitimacy of both mainstream churches and their clergymen.

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