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

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

3. How many times more likely were young Black males to be killed by police than their White counterparts between 2010 and 2012?
(a) 2 times more likely.
(b) 10 times more likely.
(c) 14 times more likely.
(d) 21 times more likely.

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

5. How many times more likely are Black people to be incarcerated in comparison with their White counterparts?
(a) Eight times more likely.
(b) Two times more likely.
(c) Five times more likely.
(d) Three times more likely.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Freddie Gray die while in police custody?

3. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?

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

5. When did Virginia rule that Christian baptism does not alter "the condition of a person to his bondage" (49)?

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