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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given when he was released from slavery?
(a) George Fox.
(b) Paul Baynes.
(c) Johannes Leo.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

2. When was The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea written?
(a) 1469.
(b) 1426.
(c) 1453.
(d) 1498.

3. With what slave did Thomas Jefferson have an affair?
(a) Annie Ross.
(b) Sally Hemings.
(c) Mary Stephens.
(d) Anna Lace.

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

5. What organization did Cotton Mather co-fund in 1683?
(a) The Society for Free Speech.
(b) The Society for Western Enlightenment.
(c) The Boston Philosophical Society.
(d) The Society for Abolition.

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

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

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

9. The author states in Chapter 5 that tobacco exports in the Mid-Atlantic regions increased from 20,000 pounds in 1619 to how many by 1700?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 38 million.
(c) 15 million.
(d) 62 million.

10. When did Virginia rule that Christian baptism does not alter "the condition of a person to his bondage" (49)?
(a) 1667.
(b) 1698.
(c) 1640.
(d) 1702.

11. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?
(a) 1674.
(b) 1636.
(c) 1695.
(d) 1632.

12. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?
(a) 1496.
(b) 1521.
(c) 1502.
(d) 1398.

13. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?
(a) A painting.
(b) A slave ship.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) A river.

14. When did Freddie Gray die while in police custody?
(a) March 15, 2011.
(b) March 26, 2013.
(c) June 15, 2014.
(d) April 12, 2015.

15. To whom was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given after he was enslaved?
(a) George Fox.
(b) Cotton Mather.
(c) Pope Leo X.
(d) King George.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what killed the Germantown Petition Against Slavery?

2. Who wrote The Selling of Joseph?

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

4. When was Cotton Mather born?

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

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