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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: "Cotton Mather," Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?
(a) Antiracists.
(b) Assimilationists.
(c) Segregationists.
(d) Abolitionists.

2. Who wrote the treatise Commentary on Ephesians?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Paul Baynes.
(c) Thomas Bray.
(d) Georges Cuvier.

3. When did Pedro de Las Casas publish History of the Indes?
(a) 1523.
(b) 1590.
(c) 1570.
(d) 1561.

4. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?
(a) 1674.
(b) 1695.
(c) 1636.
(d) 1632.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?

2. Why did Richard Mather come to America?

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

4. How many times more likely are Black people to be incarcerated in comparison with their White counterparts?

5. What theory did Aristotle develop to justify Greek superiority?

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