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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 painted Portrait d'une negresse in 1800?
(a) Richard Hakluyt.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Hendrik Cesars.
(d) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.

2. When did minstrel shows emerge in the U.S.?
(a) The 1850s.
(b) The 1830s.
(c) The 1790s.
(d) The 1820s.

3. What publication did William Lloyd Garrison create and use to encourage "free Blacks to challenge 'every law which infringes on your rights'" (168)?
(a) The Liberator.
(b) The Pulse.
(c) The Shadow.
(d) The Gazette.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Selling of Joseph?

2. What Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?

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 English Dissenter prevailed on the Quakers to convert the enslaved in 1657?

5. What was the name of Peter Jefferson's tobacco plantation?

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