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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: "W. E. B. Du Bois," Chapters 21-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Jefferson Davies's vice president of the Confederate States of America?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Benjamin Lundy.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Alexander Stephens.

2. 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) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Carl Linnaeus.

3. Who wrote Our Brother in Black?
(a) Atticus Haygood.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Henry Morton Stanley.
(d) Henry W. Grady.

4. When did Jefferson Davis take the presidential oath of the new Confederate States of America?
(a) March, 1857.
(b) February, 1861.
(c) June, 1860.
(d) July, 1865.

5. When did Phillis Wheatley publish her first poem?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1767.
(d) 1798.

Short Answer Questions

1. What act on March 26, 1790 limited citizenship to "free white persons" of "good character" (121)?

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

3. Who organized the Society for the Propagation of the Gosphel in Foreign Parts in 1701?

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

5. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?

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