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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 the First Battle of Bull run take place in northern Virginia?
(a) April 15, 1861.
(b) July 21, 1861.
(c) December 24, 1860.
(d) March 6, 1857.

2. When was the American Anti-Slavery Society formed?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1862.

3. What abolitionist claimed in a paper related on July 14, 1797 that Blackness was a result of a disease such as leprosy?
(a) Hendrik Cesars.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Benjamin Rush.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

4. When was Thomas Jefferson born?
(a) 1765.
(b) 1743.
(c) 1723.
(d) 1648.

5. When did Virginia rule that Christian baptism does not alter "the condition of a person to his bondage" (49)?
(a) 1640.
(b) 1702.
(c) 1698.
(d) 1667.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?

2. 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)?

3. When was the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union issued?

4. Who was the chief propagandist of the New South in the 1880s?

5. How many times more likely are Black people to be incarcerated in comparison with their White counterparts?

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