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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 act on March 26, 1790 limited citizenship to "free white persons" of "good character" (121)?
(a) The Confiscation Act.
(b) The Segregation Act.
(c) The Naturalization Act.
(d) The Emancipation Act.

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

3. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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

5. Who invented the mechanical cotton gin?
(a) Eli Whitney.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Hendrik Cesars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?

2. Who had sex on the Ark despite having been told not to, according to Genesis of the Bible?

3. Who wrote the treatise Commentary on Ephesians?

4. What abolitionist Quaker pointed to Black exhibits from his Providence school as proof of equality in the races?

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

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