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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?
(a) 40%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 60%.

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

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

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

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

7. Who was the Quaker founder and editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation?
(a) Thomas Bray.
(b) Benjamin Lundy.
(c) Hendrik Cesars.
(d) Frances Maria Lloyd.

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

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

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

11. When did John Locke move to London to become the personal physician of Lord Cooper?
(a) 1702.
(b) 1689.
(c) 1667.
(d) 1599.

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

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

14. How many times more likely were young Black males to be killed by police than their White counterparts between 2010 and 2012?
(a) 2 times more likely.
(b) 21 times more likely.
(c) 14 times more likely.
(d) 10 times more likely.

15. What German author wrote History of the Art of Antiquity in 1764?
(a) Thomas Bray.
(b) Johann Joachim Winkelmann.
(c) Aphra Behn.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Cotton Mather born?

2. When did minstrel shows emerge in the U.S.?

3. When did Virginia rule that Christian baptism does not alter "the condition of a person to his bondage" (49)?

4. To whom was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given after he was enslaved?

5. Who was Sarah Baartman's South African master?

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