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**Quiz for Document 8.5: Richard Allen, Excerpt from The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen (1833)**

Quiz for Document 8.5: Richard Allen, Excerpt from The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen (1833)

Document 8.5: Richard Allen, Excerpt from The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen (1833)

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Question 8.13

1. Richard Allen’s memoir suggests which of the following conclusions about St. George’s Church on Fourth Street?

It was an all-white Methodist church.

It was a black Methodist church.

It allowed black worshippers but treated them badly.

It had allowed black worshippers but ousted them without explanation.

Question 8.14

2. When Richard Allen said he believed the “great head of the church” would support him and his fellow black Methodists in founding their own church, he was referring to

the Reverend Absalom Jones.

God.

the president of the United States.

the pope.

Question 8.15

3. Allen and his fellow black Methodists’ decision to leave St. George’s and to redirect their money and fundraising efforts to their own church is evidence of which of the following?

Black Methodists’ acceptance of their inferior status in the church

Black Methodists’ pride in their race and religion

Black Methodists’ changing religious beliefs

Black Methodists’ rejection of white Philadelphians

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