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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Thomas Jefferson," Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Selling of Joseph?

2. How many times more likely are Black people to be incarcerated in comparison with their White counterparts?

3. When was Cotton Mather born?

4. When was the Germantown Petition Against Slavery produced?

5. Who is the off-duty detective that shot Rekia Boyd?

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