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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. When did Nat Turner organize and execture one of the country's most notorious slave rebellions?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1818.

2. When did Nobel Laureate Gunnar Mydral produce a study of race relations?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1955.

3. For what publication was Ephraim W. Allen editor?
(a) The Newburyport Herald.
(b) The London Globe.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Philadelphia Tribune.

4. When was the Germantown Petition Against Slavery produced?
(a) 1640.
(b) 1688.
(c) 1653.
(d) 1616.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What name was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given when he was released from slavery?

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)?

3. When did the Salem witch trials take place?

4. What abolitionist claimed in a paper related on July 14, 1797 that Blackness was a result of a disease such as leprosy?

5. In the Black revolt of September 8, 1791, a force of 100,000 African freedom fighters had killed more than how many enslavers within two months?

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