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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: "W. E. B. Du Bois," Chapters 27-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what Black newspaper did T. Thomas Fortune run and that W. E. B. Du Bois began his publishing career?
(a) The New York Globe.
(b) The Philadelphia Enquirer.
(c) The New York Post.
(d) The Boston Sun.

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

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

4. What publication did William Lloyd Garrison create and use to encourage "free Blacks to challenge 'every law which infringes on your rights'" (168)?
(a) The Pulse.
(b) The Liberator.
(c) The Gazette.
(d) The Shadow.

5. When did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1852.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the short story collection In Ole Virginia, or Marse Chan and Others in 1887?

2. When did Abraham Lincoln raise the Union Army to put down the "insurrection" during the secession (215)?

3. Where did the Black revolt of September 8, 1791 take place?

4. When did Napoleon renounce Louisiana?

5. What abolitionist claimed in a paper related on July 14, 1797 that Blackness was a result of a disease such as leprosy?

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