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

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

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

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

5. How many times more likely are Black people to be incarcerated in comparison with their White counterparts?
(a) Three times more likely.
(b) Eight times more likely.
(c) Two times more likely.
(d) Five times more likely.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the off-duty detective that shot Rekia Boyd?

2. When did Nobel Laureate Gunnar Mydral produce a study of race relations?

3. Who killed Michael Brown?

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

5. When was The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea written?

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