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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Thomas Jefferson," Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Rekia Boyd fatally shot?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Miami.
(d) Houston.

2. The free Black population in Virginia went from 1,800 in 1782 to what number in 1810?
(a) 12,350.
(b) 16,950.
(c) 30,570.
(d) 23,150.

3. When was Sandra Bland found hanged in her jail cell?
(a) March 15, 2011.
(b) March 26, 2013.
(c) June 15, 2014.
(d) July 13, 2015.

4. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?
(a) 1502.
(b) 1521.
(c) 1398.
(d) 1496.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brought the First Great Awakening to Virginia?

2. In the concept of uplift suasion, the responsibility for race relations is placed upon whom, according to the author?

3. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?

4. Who wrote Essay on Universal History in 1756?

5. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?

(see the answer key)

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