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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. What fort were the Portuguese beginning building in 1481?
(a) Elmina.
(b) Ceuta.
(c) Alitta.
(d) Atenia.

2. How many times more likely were young Black males to be killed by police than their White counterparts between 2010 and 2012?
(a) 14 times more likely.
(b) 21 times more likely.
(c) 10 times more likely.
(d) 2 times more likely.

3. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?
(a) 1576.
(b) 1598.
(c) 1562.
(d) 1499.

4. Who wrote Essay on Universal History in 1756?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Aphra Behn.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

5. When did Freddie Gray die while in police custody?
(a) March 26, 2013.
(b) March 15, 2011.
(c) June 15, 2014.
(d) April 12, 2015.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?

2. Who wrote the treatise Commentary on Ephesians?

3. Who or what killed the Germantown Petition Against Slavery?

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

5. What abolitionist essay did John Woolman publish in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1752?

(see the answer key)

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