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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: "W. E. B. Du Bois," Chapters 24-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What English Dissenter prevailed on the Quakers to convert the enslaved in 1657?
(a) Richard Hakluyt.
(b) John Cotton.
(c) Paul Baynes.
(d) George Fox.

2. Who wrote Two Lectures on the Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races in 1845?
(a) Josiah Nott.
(b) George Fox.
(c) Thomas Bray.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

3. When was Cotton Mather born?
(a) 1659.
(b) 1663.
(c) 1623.
(d) 1701.

4. Who wrote Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York?
(a) Mary White Ovington.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) James Elbert Cutler.
(d) Thomas Dixon.

5. What publication did William Lloyd Garrison create and use to encourage "free Blacks to challenge 'every law which infringes on your rights'" (168)?
(a) The Liberator.
(b) The Pulse.
(c) The Shadow.
(d) The Gazette.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made his revelation in a 1680 pamphlet criticizing racist planters for making "those two words, Negro and Slave" synonymous (51)?

2. Who was the Chicago Defender founder who became one of the first Black millionaires?

3. With what co-founder of the NAACP did W. E. B. Du Bois butt heads?

4. When was the decision found in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

5. When did Nat Turner organize and execture one of the country's most notorious slave rebellions?

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