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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 group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?
(a) Abolitionists.
(b) Segregationists.
(c) Assimilationists.
(d) Antiracists.

2. Why did Richard Mather come to America?
(a) To seek gold.
(b) To evade the French authorities.
(c) To attend his arranged marriage.
(d) Religious persecution.

3. According to the author in Chapter 7, who became associated to associating "lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand and ... darkness and Blackness and ignorance, on the other" (81)?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Carl Linnaeus.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

4. What Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Aphra Behn.

5. What was the name of Peter Jefferson's tobacco plantation?
(a) Land's End.
(b) Riverview.
(c) Shadwell.
(d) Grandwell.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given after he was enslaved?

2. Who invented the mechanical cotton gin?

3. How many times more likely were young Black males to be killed by police than their White counterparts between 2010 and 2012?

4. What theory did Aristotle develop to justify Greek superiority?

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

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