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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. The author indicates that at the time the book was written, Federal data shows that the median wealth of White households is how many more times the median wealth of Black households?
(a) 5 times more.
(b) 13 times more.
(c) 9 times more.
(d) 4 times more.

2. What new era was emerging at the time that Thomas Jefferson was born?
(a) The Industrial age.
(b) The Enlightenment.
(c) The Humanist era.
(d) The Modernist age.

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

4. How much of the nation's wealth is owned by African Americans?
(a) 9.2%.
(b) 4.9%.
(c) 2.7%.
(d) 7.5%.

5. When did Phillis Wheatley publish her first poem?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1767.
(d) 1642.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given after he was enslaved?

2. What fort were the Portuguese beginning building in 1481?

3. What name was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given when he was released from slavery?

4. When did Thomas Jefferson's father die?

5. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?

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