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

2. What Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?
(a) Aphra Behn.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) Carl Linnaeus.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

3. Who was the Quaker founder and editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation?
(a) Frances Maria Lloyd.
(b) Thomas Bray.
(c) Benjamin Lundy.
(d) Hendrik Cesars.

4. Who was the naturalist that adopted the name Buffon?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Georges Louis Leclerc.
(c) Aphra Behn.
(d) Thomas Bray.

5. 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 Shadow.
(b) The Gazette.
(c) The Liberator.
(d) The Pulse.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York?

2. How many of the 1.1 million men, women, and children in the U.S. contraband camps died during the Civil War?

3. Who was William Lloyd Garrison's mother?

4. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?

5. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?

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