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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. Who made his revelation in a 1680 pamphlet criticizing racist planters for making "those two words, Negro and Slave" synonymous (51)?
(a) Paul Baynes.
(b) John Mather.
(c) George Fox.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

2. When was Cotton Mather born?
(a) 1659.
(b) 1663.
(c) 1623.
(d) 1701.

3. The author states in Chapter 5 that tobacco exports in the Mid-Atlantic regions increased from 20,000 pounds in 1619 to how many by 1700?
(a) 62 million.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 15 million.
(d) 38 million.

4. What did George Best observe about the Inuit people of northeastern Canada on his voyage in 1577?
(a) They were paler than the people living in the south.
(b) They were darker than people living in the south.
(c) They were shorter than people living in the south.
(d) They were taller than people living in the south.

5. When did the Salem witch trials take place?
(a) 1692-1693.
(b) 1499-1501.
(c) 1565-1600.
(d) 1645-1647.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?

2. Where was Rekia Boyd fatally shot?

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

4. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?

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

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