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

2. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?
(a) 1521.
(b) 1398.
(c) 1496.
(d) 1502.

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

4. The author indicates that at the time the book was written, Federal data shows that the median wealth of White households is how many more times the median wealth of Black households?
(a) 13 times more.
(b) 9 times more.
(c) 4 times more.
(d) 5 times more.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Pedro de Las Casas publish History of the Indes?

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

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

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

5. Who gave the speech from which the author derived the title Stamped from the Beginning?

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