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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: "Cotton Mather," Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?
(a) Abolitionists.
(b) Segregationists.
(c) Antiracists.
(d) Assimilationists.

2. What name was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given when he was released from slavery?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) George Fox.
(c) Johannes Leo.
(d) Paul Baynes.

3. When did Pedro de Las Casas publish History of the Indes?
(a) 1570.
(b) 1590.
(c) 1561.
(d) 1523.

4. How many times more likely were young Black males to be killed by police than their White counterparts between 2010 and 2012?
(a) 21 times more likely.
(b) 2 times more likely.
(c) 10 times more likely.
(d) 14 times more likely.

5. To whom was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given after he was enslaved?
(a) George Fox.
(b) Cotton Mather.
(c) King George.
(d) Pope Leo X.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Freddie Gray die while in police custody?

2. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?

3. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?

4. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?

5. Who had sex on the Ark despite having been told not to, according to Genesis of the Bible?

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