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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 Napoleon renounce Louisiana?
(a) July 4, 1826.
(b) April 11, 1803.
(c) April 17, 1790.
(d) August 17, 1757.

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

3. Whose acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin set off the #Black Lives Matter movement?
(a) Dante Servin.
(b) Dylann Roof.
(c) Darren Wilson.
(d) George Zimmerman.

4. What abolitionist essay did John Woolman publish in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1752?
(a) A Humanist Perspective on American Slavery.
(b) The Christian Guide to Slavery Ownership.
(c) The Primitive Mind.
(d) Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes.

5. When was Cotton Mather born?
(a) 1659.
(b) 1701.
(c) 1623.
(d) 1663.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?

3. The author indicates that at the time the book was written, Federal data shows that the median wealth of White households is how many more times the median wealth of Black households?

4. What organization did Cotton Mather co-fund in 1683?

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

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