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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 Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Aphra Behn.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

2. When did Thomas Jefferson's father die?
(a) August 17, 1757.
(b) April 11, 1803.
(c) December 24, 1860.
(d) April 17, 1790.

3. When was Sandra Bland found hanged in her jail cell?
(a) June 15, 2014.
(b) March 26, 2013.
(c) July 13, 2015.
(d) March 15, 2011.

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

5. 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) 62 million.
(b) 38 million.
(c) 15 million.
(d) 20 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what slave did Thomas Jefferson have an affair?

2. How many times more likely are Black people to be incarcerated in comparison with their White counterparts?

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

4. When was the Germantown Petition Against Slavery produced?

5. When was Thomas Jefferson born?

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