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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: "Cotton Mather," Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Nobel Laureate Gunnar Mydral produce a study of race relations?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1955.

2. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?
(a) 1695.
(b) 1636.
(c) 1674.
(d) 1632.

3. Why did Richard Mather come to America?
(a) To attend his arranged marriage.
(b) To evade the French authorities.
(c) To seek gold.
(d) Religious persecution.

4. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?
(a) Antiracists.
(b) Segregationists.
(c) Assimilationists.
(d) Abolitionists.

5. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Aphra Behn.
(c) George Fox.
(d) Paul Baynes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Cotton Mather born?

2. What church did Increase Mather helm?

3. What organization did Cotton Mather co-fund in 1683?

4. Who was responsible for the murders in the Charleson church shooting?

5. How much of the nation's wealth is owned by African Americans?

(see the answer key)

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