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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 Freddie Gray die while in police custody?
(a) June 15, 2014.
(b) March 15, 2011.
(c) March 26, 2013.
(d) April 12, 2015.

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

3. Whose acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin set off the #Black Lives Matter movement?
(a) Dante Servin.
(b) Darren Wilson.
(c) Dylann Roof.
(d) George Zimmerman.

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

5. Who gave the speech from which the author derived the title Stamped from the Beginning?
(a) Jefferson Davis.
(b) Dante Servin.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Darren Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Richard Mather come to America?

2. When was Sandra Bland found hanged in her jail cell?

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

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

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

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