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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. Who or what killed the Germantown Petition Against Slavery?
(a) An African slave uprising.
(b) Slave-holding Quakers.
(c) Slave-holding Jews.
(d) A Presidential order.

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

3. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?
(a) Ceuta.
(b) Manatowak.
(c) Cordoba.
(d) Cairo.

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

5. What abolitionist essay did John Woolman publish in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1752?
(a) The Primitive Mind.
(b) Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes.
(c) A Humanist Perspective on American Slavery.
(d) The Christian Guide to Slavery Ownership.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?

2. When did Nobel Laureate Gunnar Mydral produce a study of race relations?

3. Who killed Michael Brown?

4. What church did Increase Mather helm?

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

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