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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 Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Aphra Behn.
(d) Carl Linnaeus.

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

3. What German author wrote History of the Art of Antiquity in 1764?
(a) Aphra Behn.
(b) Johann Joachim Winkelmann.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Thomas Bray.

4. What theory did Aristotle develop to justify Greek superiority?
(a) Climate theory.
(b) Curse theory.
(c) Ascension theory.
(d) Naturalization theory.

5. What organization did Cotton Mather co-fund in 1683?
(a) The Society for Free Speech.
(b) The Society for Western Enlightenment.
(c) The Boston Philosophical Society.
(d) The Society for Abolition.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?

2. When was the Germantown Petition Against Slavery produced?

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

4. What did George Best observe about the Inuit people of northeastern Canada on his voyage in 1577?

5. When was The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea written?

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