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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: "Angela Davis," Chapters 34-37 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Richard Mather come to America?
(a) To evade the French authorities.
(b) To seek gold.
(c) Religious persecution.
(d) To attend his arranged marriage.

2. When did Napoleon renounce Louisiana?
(a) April 11, 1803.
(b) July 4, 1826.
(c) April 17, 1790.
(d) August 17, 1757.

3. When did W. E. B. Du Bois publish Dusk of Dawn?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1935.

4. Who is the author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism?
(a) James Elbert Cutler.
(b) Derrick Bell.
(c) Robert Abbott.
(d) Bobby Seale.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was responsible for the murders in the Charleson church shooting?

2. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?

3. What Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?

4. What organization did Cotton Mather co-fund in 1683?

5. What had the population of Boston grown to by the time of John Adams's death?

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