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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who invented the mechanical cotton gin?
(a) Eli Whitney.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Hendrik Cesars.

4. Where did the Black revolt of September 8, 1791 take place?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Kentucky.

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

6. According to the author in Chapter 7, who became associated to associating "lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand and ... darkness and Blackness and ignorance, on the other" (81)?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Carl Linnaeus.

7. Who wrote Two Lectures on the Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races in 1845?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Josiah Nott.
(c) George Fox.
(d) Thomas Bray.

8. Who was responsible for the murders in the Charleson church shooting?
(a) Dante Servin.
(b) George Zimmerman.
(c) Dylann Roof.
(d) Darren Wilson.

9. Whose acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin set off the #Black Lives Matter movement?
(a) Darren Wilson.
(b) Dante Servin.
(c) Dylann Roof.
(d) George Zimmerman.

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

11. Who organized the Society for the Propagation of the Gosphel in Foreign Parts in 1701?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) George Fox.
(d) Thomas Bray.

12. What German author wrote History of the Art of Antiquity in 1764?
(a) Johann Joachim Winkelmann.
(b) Aphra Behn.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Thomas Bray.

13. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?
(a) 40%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 30%.

14. How much of the nation's wealth is owned by African Americans?
(a) 2.7%.
(b) 7.5%.
(c) 9.2%.
(d) 4.9%.

15. Who wrote Essay on Universal History in 1756?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Aphra Behn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted Portrait d'une negresse in 1800?

2. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?

3. Why did Richard Mather come to America?

4. To whom was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given after he was enslaved?

5. Where was Rekia Boyd fatally shot?

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