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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was John Woolman from?
(a) Vermont.
(b) New Hampshire.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) New York.

2. When was the decision found in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?
(a) July 4, 1826.
(b) April 17, 1859.
(c) March 6, 1857.
(d) August 17, 1757.

3. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?
(a) 1562.
(b) 1598.
(c) 1499.
(d) 1576.

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

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

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

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

8. When was Sandra Bland found hanged in her jail cell?
(a) March 15, 2011.
(b) June 15, 2014.
(c) March 26, 2013.
(d) July 13, 2015.

9. 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) Thomas Bray.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Hendrik Cesars.
(d) Moses Brown.

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

11. 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 Shadow.
(c) The Gazette.
(d) The Pulse.

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

13. When did Pedro de Las Casas publish History of the Indes?
(a) 1570.
(b) 1523.
(c) 1590.
(d) 1561.

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

15. On what date did both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die?
(a) April 11, 1803.
(b) July 4, 1826.
(c) April 17, 1790.
(d) August 17, 1757.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Thomas Jefferson born?

2. Who was the Quaker founder and editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation?

3. When was Cotton Mather born?

4. Where did the Black revolt of September 8, 1791 take place?

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

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