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

2. When was Thomas Jefferson born?
(a) 1765.
(b) 1743.
(c) 1723.
(d) 1648.

3. When was the decision found in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?
(a) April 17, 1859.
(b) July 4, 1826.
(c) March 6, 1857.
(d) August 17, 1757.

4. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?
(a) 40%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 20%.

5. When did Theodore Roosevelt order the dishonerable discharge of 167 Black soldiers in the 25th Infantry Regiment?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1911.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Black revolt of September 8, 1791, a force of 100,000 African freedom fighters had killed more than how many enslavers within two months?

2. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

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

4. What English Dissenter prevailed on the Quakers to convert the enslaved in 1657?

5. What was declared in the decision of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka?

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