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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 Cotton Mather born?
(a) 1663.
(b) 1701.
(c) 1623.
(d) 1659.

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) 10 times more likely.
(c) 21 times more likely.
(d) 2 times more likely.

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

4. When did Charles II restore the English throne?
(a) 1660.
(b) 1692.
(c) 1626.
(d) 1689.

5. According to the author in Chapter 7, who became associated to associating "lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand and ... darkness and Blackness and ignorance, on the other" (81)?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Carl Linnaeus.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Selling of Joseph?

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

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

4. The author states in Chapter 5 that tobacco exports in the Mid-Atlantic regions increased from 20,000 pounds in 1619 to how many by 1700?

5. Where was John Woolman from?

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