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

2. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?
(a) A slave ship.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) A painting.
(d) A river.

3. What theory did Aristotle develop to justify Greek superiority?
(a) Naturalization theory.
(b) Ascension theory.
(c) Curse theory.
(d) Climate theory.

4. When was the modern mechanical cotton gin invented?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1718.
(d) 1802.

5. Who made his revelation in a 1680 pamphlet criticizing racist planters for making "those two words, Negro and Slave" synonymous (51)?
(a) George Fox.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) John Mather.
(d) Paul Baynes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?

4. When did Pedro de Las Casas publish History of the Indes?

5. What act on March 26, 1790 limited citizenship to "free white persons" of "good character" (121)?

(see the answer key)

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