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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: "William Lloyd Garrison," Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is referred to in Chapter 11 as "That rare segregationist who rejected polygenesis," believing "that all humans descended from Europe's Garden of Eden" (138)?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Hendrik Cesars.
(c) Thomas Bray.
(d) Moses Brown.

2. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?
(a) Ceuta.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Cordoba.
(d) Manatowak.

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

4. What new era was emerging at the time that Thomas Jefferson was born?
(a) The Modernist age.
(b) The Industrial age.
(c) The Enlightenment.
(d) The Humanist era.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?

2. 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?

3. When did the Salem witch trials take place?

4. When was the decision found in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

5. Who was William Lloyd Garrison's mother?

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