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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Freddie Gray die while in police custody?
(a) March 26, 2013.
(b) April 12, 2015.
(c) June 15, 2014.
(d) March 15, 2011.

2. When did Nat Turner organize and execture one of the country's most notorious slave rebellions?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1759.

3. According to the author in Chapter 7, who became associated to associating "lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand and ... darkness and Blackness and ignorance, on the other" (81)?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Carl Linnaeus.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

4. For what publication was Ephraim W. Allen editor?
(a) The London Globe.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Newburyport Herald.
(d) The Philadelphia Tribune.

5. The author states in Chapter 5 that tobacco exports in the Mid-Atlantic regions increased from 20,000 pounds in 1619 to how many by 1700?
(a) 38 million.
(b) 15 million.
(c) 62 million.
(d) 20 million.

6. In the concept of uplift suasion, the responsibility for race relations is placed upon whom, according to the author?
(a) Women.
(b) Black Americans.
(c) White Americans.
(d) Male voters.

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

8. When was Thomas Jefferson born?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1723.
(c) 1765.
(d) 1743.

9. When did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1865.

10. When did Thomas Jefferson's father die?
(a) April 11, 1803.
(b) August 17, 1757.
(c) April 17, 1790.
(d) December 24, 1860.

11. When did Benjamin Franklin die?
(a) April 17, 1790.
(b) April 11, 1803.
(c) December 24, 1860.
(d) August 17, 1757.

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

13. What organization did Cotton Mather co-fund in 1683?
(a) The Boston Philosophical Society.
(b) The Society for Free Speech.
(c) The Society for Abolition.
(d) The Society for Western Enlightenment.

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

15. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?
(a) 1632.
(b) 1695.
(c) 1674.
(d) 1636.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the nation's wealth is owned by African Americans?

2. When was Sandra Bland found hanged in her jail cell?

3. Who brought the First Great Awakening to Virginia?

4. Why did Richard Mather come to America?

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

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