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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the modern mechanical cotton gin invented?
(a) 1718.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1802.

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

3. What English Dissenter prevailed on the Quakers to convert the enslaved in 1657?
(a) John Cotton.
(b) George Fox.
(c) Richard Hakluyt.
(d) Paul Baynes.

4. Who was William Lloyd Garrison's mother?
(a) Frances Maria Lloyd.
(b) Anna Maria Garrison.
(c) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(d) Sally Hemings.

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?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 5,000.

6. Who painted Portrait d'une negresse in 1800?
(a) Richard Hakluyt.
(b) Hendrik Cesars.
(c) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

7. When did Charles II restore the English throne?
(a) 1626.
(b) 1692.
(c) 1660.
(d) 1689.

8. Who wrote the treatise Commentary on Ephesians?
(a) Thomas Bray.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Paul Baynes.

9. What new era was emerging at the time that Thomas Jefferson was born?
(a) The Humanist era.
(b) The Enlightenment.
(c) The Industrial age.
(d) The Modernist age.

10. Who made his revelation in a 1680 pamphlet criticizing racist planters for making "those two words, Negro and Slave" synonymous (51)?
(a) George Fox.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) Paul Baynes.
(d) John Mather.

11. Who had sex on the Ark despite having been told not to, according to Genesis of the Bible?
(a) Moses.
(b) Ham.
(c) Abel.
(d) Cain.

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

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

14. When did Thomas Jefferson's father die?
(a) August 17, 1757.
(b) April 11, 1803.
(c) December 24, 1860.
(d) April 17, 1790.

15. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?
(a) Manatowak.
(b) Ceuta.
(c) Cordoba.
(d) Cairo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?

2. What did George Best observe about the Inuit people of northeastern Canada on his voyage in 1577?

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

4. When was the decision found in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

5. Where was John Woolman from?

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