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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) 1640.
(c) 1667.
(d) 1698.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who killed Michael Brown?

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

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

4. When did Freddie Gray die while in police custody?

5. When was The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea written?

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