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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 organization did Cotton Mather co-fund in 1683?
(a) The Society for Abolition.
(b) The Society for Western Enlightenment.
(c) The Boston Philosophical Society.
(d) The Society for Free Speech.

2. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?
(a) 1521.
(b) 1502.
(c) 1496.
(d) 1398.

3. Who wrote the treatise Commentary on Ephesians?
(a) Thomas Bray.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Paul Baynes.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

4. Who had sex on the Ark despite having been told not to, according to Genesis of the Bible?
(a) Cain.
(b) Ham.
(c) Abel.
(d) Moses.

5. What English Dissenter prevailed on the Quakers to convert the enslaved in 1657?
(a) George Fox.
(b) Paul Baynes.
(c) John Cotton.
(d) Richard Hakluyt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what killed the Germantown Petition Against Slavery?

2. Who was the naturalist that adopted the name Buffon?

3. Who was responsible for the murders in the Charleson church shooting?

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

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

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