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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) Religious persecution.
(b) To attend his arranged marriage.
(c) To seek gold.
(d) To evade the French authorities.

2. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?
(a) Manatowak.
(b) Cordoba.
(c) Ceuta.
(d) Cairo.

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

4. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?
(a) 1499.
(b) 1576.
(c) 1598.
(d) 1562.

5. Whose acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin set off the #Black Lives Matter movement?
(a) Dante Servin.
(b) Darren Wilson.
(c) Dylann Roof.
(d) George Zimmerman.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Germantown Petition Against Slavery produced?

2. What church did Increase Mather helm?

3. What did George Best observe about the Inuit people of northeastern Canada on his voyage in 1577?

4. When did Virginia rule that Christian baptism does not alter "the condition of a person to his bondage" (49)?

5. What fort were the Portuguese beginning building in 1481?

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