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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?
(a) George Fox.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) Paul Baynes.
(d) Aphra Behn.

3. Who is the off-duty detective that shot Rekia Boyd?
(a) Dylann Roof.
(b) Darren Wilson.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Dante Servin.

4. On what date did both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die?
(a) August 17, 1757.
(b) April 11, 1803.
(c) April 17, 1790.
(d) July 4, 1826.

5. Who wrote the treatise Commentary on Ephesians?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Thomas Bray.
(d) Paul Baynes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the Germantown Petition Against Slavery produced?

3. Who painted Portrait d'une negresse in 1800?

4. To whom was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given after he was enslaved?

5. For what publication was Ephraim W. Allen editor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is monogenism?

2. Why is it important to the author that the reader know this book is not a history of racial progress?

3. What is uplift suasion?

4. What is polygenism? How did it promote racism?

5. When and where did Nat Turner's Rebellion take place? What were its impacts?

6. Discuss the ironies of the Declaration of Independence.

7. What is climate theory?

8. Define the three sides of the racial debate, according to the author.

9. What discovery did Cotton Mather make during the smallpox outbreak of 1721?

10. What was the Enlightenment?

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