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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. 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) 5 times more.
(b) 4 times more.
(c) 9 times more.
(d) 13 times more.

2. When did Charles II restore the English throne?
(a) 1689.
(b) 1660.
(c) 1626.
(d) 1692.

3. 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) Paul Baynes.
(c) George Fox.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

4. What did George Best observe about the Inuit people of northeastern Canada on his voyage in 1577?
(a) They were shorter than people living in the south.
(b) They were darker than people living in the south.
(c) They were taller than people living in the south.
(d) They were paler than the people living in the south.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote The Selling of Joseph?

3. What name was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given when he was released from slavery?

4. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?

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

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