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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: "William Lloyd Garrison," Chapters 17-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York?
(a) March, 1842.
(b) March, 1840.
(c) July, 1848.
(d) June, 1879.

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

4. Who was the naturalist that adopted the name Buffon?
(a) Aphra Behn.
(b) Thomas Bray.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Georges Louis Leclerc.

5. What church did Increase Mather helm?
(a) The Quaker Church of Boston.
(b) The South Church of Boston.
(c) The North Church of Boston.
(d) The Episcopalian Church of Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did General Lee's army surrender, ending the Civil War?

2. What was the name of Peter Jefferson's tobacco plantation?

3. When did Jefferson Davis take the presidential oath of the new Confederate States of America?

4. What act was passed in 1861 that declared that slave holders forfeited their ownership of any property, including slaves, used by the Confederate Army?

5. 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)?

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