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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. With what slave did Thomas Jefferson have an affair?
(a) Mary Stephens.
(b) Anna Lace.
(c) Annie Ross.
(d) Sally Hemings.

2. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?
(a) 1562.
(b) 1499.
(c) 1598.
(d) 1576.

3. Who was Sarah Baartman's South African master?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Hendrik Cesars.
(c) Thomas Bray.
(d) Moses Brown.

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

5. When was Thomas Jefferson born?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1723.
(c) 1765.
(d) 1743.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Nobel Laureate Gunnar Mydral produce a study of race relations?

2. In the concept of uplift suasion, the responsibility for race relations is placed upon whom, according to the author?

3. What new era was emerging at the time that Thomas Jefferson was born?

4. Who invented the mechanical cotton gin?

5. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?

(see the answer key)

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