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

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

3. To whom was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given after he was enslaved?
(a) Cotton Mather.
(b) Pope Leo X.
(c) King George.
(d) George Fox.

4. Who wrote The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Paul Baynes.
(c) Richard Hakluyt.
(d) Georges Cuvier.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Richard Mather come to America?

2. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?

3. What did George Best observe about the Inuit people of northeastern Canada on his voyage in 1577?

4. Where was Rekia Boyd fatally shot?

5. Whose acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin set off the #Black Lives Matter movement?

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