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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Thomas Jefferson," Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What abolitionist claimed in a paper related on July 14, 1797 that Blackness was a result of a disease such as leprosy?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Benjamin Rush.
(c) Hendrik Cesars.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

2. 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) 15 million.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 62 million.
(d) 38 million.

3. When did Nobel Laureate Gunnar Mydral produce a study of race relations?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1944.

4. What church did Increase Mather helm?
(a) The North Church of Boston.
(b) The South Church of Boston.
(c) The Episcopalian Church of Boston.
(d) The Quaker Church of Boston.

5. Why did Richard Mather come to America?
(a) To seek gold.
(b) Religious persecution.
(c) To evade the French authorities.
(d) To attend his arranged marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?

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

3. When was the Germantown Petition Against Slavery produced?

4. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?

5. When did Phillis Wheatley publish her first poem?

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