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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

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

4. When did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1852.

5. What act on March 26, 1790 limited citizenship to "free white persons" of "good character" (121)?
(a) The Segregation Act.
(b) The Naturalization Act.
(c) The Confiscation Act.
(d) The Emancipation Act.

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

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

9. What theory did Aristotle develop to justify Greek superiority?
(a) Naturalization theory.
(b) Climate theory.
(c) Ascension theory.
(d) Curse theory.

10. 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)?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Thomas Bray.
(c) Hendrik Cesars.
(d) Moses Brown.

11. Who killed Michael Brown?
(a) Dylann Roof.
(b) Dante Servin.
(c) Darren Wilson.
(d) George Zimmerman.

12. The free Black population in Virginia went from 1,800 in 1782 to what number in 1810?
(a) 16,950.
(b) 30,570.
(c) 12,350.
(d) 23,150.

13. Who was Sarah Baartman's South African master?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Hendrik Cesars.
(c) Thomas Bray.
(d) Moses Brown.

14. What did George Best observe about the Inuit people of northeastern Canada on his voyage in 1577?
(a) They were shorter than people living in the south.
(b) They were darker than people living in the south.
(c) They were taller than people living in the south.
(d) They were paler than the people living in the south.

15. When was Thomas Jefferson born?
(a) 1765.
(b) 1648.
(c) 1743.
(d) 1723.

Short Answer Questions

1. What abolitionist claimed in a paper related on July 14, 1797 that Blackness was a result of a disease such as leprosy?

2. In the concept of uplift suasion, the responsibility for race relations is placed upon whom, according to the author?

3. When did Freddie Gray die while in police custody?

4. How much of the nation's wealth is owned by African Americans?

5. Who became "one of the first African Americans to publicly attack the idea of uplift suasion" in the 1830s (179)?

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