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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 states in Chapter 5 that tobacco exports in the Mid-Atlantic regions increased from 20,000 pounds in 1619 to how many by 1700?
(a) 38 million.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 15 million.
(d) 62 million.

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

3. How many times more likely were young Black males to be killed by police than their White counterparts between 2010 and 2012?
(a) 2 times more likely.
(b) 14 times more likely.
(c) 10 times more likely.
(d) 21 times more likely.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did Charles II restore the English throne?

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

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

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