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

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

3. Who gave the speech from which the author derived the title Stamped from the Beginning?
(a) Dante Servin.
(b) George Zimmerman.
(c) Darren Wilson.
(d) Jefferson Davis.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who had sex on the Ark despite having been told not to, according to Genesis of the Bible?

3. Who wrote the treatise Commentary on Ephesians?

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

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

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