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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: "Cotton Mather," Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had sex on the Ark despite having been told not to, according to Genesis of the Bible?
(a) Ham.
(b) Moses.
(c) Abel.
(d) Cain.

2. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?
(a) 40%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 20%.

3. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?
(a) Cordoba.
(b) Ceuta.
(c) Manatowak.
(d) Cairo.

4. When did Nobel Laureate Gunnar Mydral produce a study of race relations?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1944.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did George Best observe about the Inuit people of northeastern Canada on his voyage in 1577?

2. What name was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given when he was released from slavery?

3. Who killed Michael Brown?

4. When did Pedro de Las Casas publish History of the Indes?

5. Whose acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin set off the #Black Lives Matter movement?

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