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

2. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?
(a) Cordoba.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Manatowak.
(d) Ceuta.

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

4. Who had sex on the Ark despite having been told not to, according to Genesis of the Bible?
(a) Cain.
(b) Abel.
(c) Ham.
(d) Moses.

5. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1576.
(c) 1562.
(d) 1499.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation?

4. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?

5. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?

(see the answer key)

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