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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 wrote The Selling of Joseph?
(a) George Fox.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Thomas Bray.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

2. 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?
(a) 5 times more.
(b) 4 times more.
(c) 13 times more.
(d) 9 times more.

3. When did John Locke move to London to become the personal physician of Lord Cooper?
(a) 1689.
(b) 1667.
(c) 1702.
(d) 1599.

4. When was Cotton Mather born?
(a) 1701.
(b) 1623.
(c) 1659.
(d) 1663.

5. When did the U.S. Supreme Court declare the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1892.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Phillis Wheatley publish her first poem?

2. Who wrote Our Brother in Black?

3. What abolitionist essay did John Woolman publish in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1752?

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

5. 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)?

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