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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

3. 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.

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

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

6. Where did Nat Turner's slave rebellion take place?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Haiti.

7. 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) 15 million.
(b) 38 million.
(c) 20 million.
(d) 62 million.

8. When did Benjamin Franklin die?
(a) April 11, 1803.
(b) December 24, 1860.
(c) April 17, 1790.
(d) August 17, 1757.

9. 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.

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

11. Where was Rekia Boyd fatally shot?
(a) Houston.
(b) Miami.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

12. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) George Fox.
(c) Aphra Behn.
(d) Paul Baynes.

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

14. What fort were the Portuguese beginning building in 1481?
(a) Alitta.
(b) Ceuta.
(c) Elmina.
(d) Atenia.

15. What abolitionist Quaker pointed to Black exhibits from his Providence school as proof of equality in the races?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Moses Brown.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Hendrik Cesars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?

2. What English Dissenter prevailed on the Quakers to convert the enslaved in 1657?

3. When was The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea written?

4. What name was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given when he was released from slavery?

5. What organization did Cotton Mather co-fund in 1683?

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