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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. When was the Germantown Petition Against Slavery produced?
(a) 1688.
(b) 1640.
(c) 1616.
(d) 1653.

2. Why did Richard Mather come to America?
(a) To attend his arranged marriage.
(b) To evade the French authorities.
(c) Religious persecution.
(d) To seek gold.

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

4. Who wrote The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation?
(a) Paul Baynes.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Richard Hakluyt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What German author wrote History of the Art of Antiquity in 1764?

2. What Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?

3. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?

4. How many times more likely were young Black males to be killed by police than their White counterparts between 2010 and 2012?

5. What new era was emerging at the time that Thomas Jefferson was born?

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