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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 Virginia rule that Christian baptism does not alter "the condition of a person to his bondage" (49)?
(a) 1702.
(b) 1667.
(c) 1640.
(d) 1698.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did Charles II restore the English throne?

4. Who made his revelation in a 1680 pamphlet criticizing racist planters for making "those two words, Negro and Slave" synonymous (51)?

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

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