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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what publication was Ephraim W. Allen editor?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The London Globe.
(c) The Philadelphia Tribune.
(d) The Newburyport Herald.

2. 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) John Mather.
(c) George Fox.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

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

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

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

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

7. The author indicates that at the time the book was written, Federal data shows that the median wealth of White households is how many more times the median wealth of Black households?
(a) 9 times more.
(b) 13 times more.
(c) 5 times more.
(d) 4 times more.

8. Who is the off-duty detective that shot Rekia Boyd?
(a) Dylann Roof.
(b) Darren Wilson.
(c) Dante Servin.
(d) George Zimmerman.

9. When did minstrel shows emerge in the U.S.?
(a) The 1830s.
(b) The 1850s.
(c) The 1790s.
(d) The 1820s.

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

11. Who gave the speech from which the author derived the title Stamped from the Beginning?
(a) Jefferson Davis.
(b) Dante Servin.
(c) Darren Wilson.
(d) George Zimmerman.

12. When did Phillis Wheatley publish her first poem?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1745.
(d) 1767.

13. 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) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Morgan Godwyn.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

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

15. Who was the naturalist that adopted the name Buffon?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Aphra Behn.
(c) Thomas Bray.
(d) Georges Louis Leclerc.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?

2. What abolitionist Quaker pointed to Black exhibits from his Providence school as proof of equality in the races?

3. When was the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York?

4. What new era was emerging at the time that Thomas Jefferson was born?

5. What act on March 26, 1790 limited citizenship to "free white persons" of "good character" (121)?

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