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

2. The author indicates that at the time the book was written, Federal data shows that the median wealth of White households is how many more times the median wealth of Black households?
(a) 9 times more.
(b) 5 times more.
(c) 4 times more.
(d) 13 times more.

3. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?
(a) 40%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 60%.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the off-duty detective that shot Rekia Boyd?

2. What theory did Aristotle develop to justify Greek superiority?

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

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

5. What English Dissenter prevailed on the Quakers to convert the enslaved in 1657?

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