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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who became "one of the first African Americans to publicly attack the idea of uplift suasion" in the 1830s (179)?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Thomas Bray.
(c) George Fox.
(d) Peter Paul Simons.

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

3. When was the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York?
(a) July, 1848.
(b) March, 1840.
(c) June, 1879.
(d) March, 1842.

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

5. What new era was emerging at the time that Thomas Jefferson was born?
(a) The Industrial age.
(b) The Enlightenment.
(c) The Modernist age.
(d) The Humanist era.

6. Who wrote the treatise Commentary on Ephesians?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Thomas Bray.
(c) Paul Baynes.
(d) Georges Cuvier.

7. When was the modern mechanical cotton gin invented?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1718.
(d) 1794.

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

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

10. What did George Best observe about the Inuit people of northeastern Canada on his voyage in 1577?
(a) They were shorter than people living in the south.
(b) They were darker than people living in the south.
(c) They were taller than people living in the south.
(d) They were paler than the people living in the south.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Rekia Boyd fatally shot?

2. For what publication was Ephraim W. Allen editor?

3. When did the Salem witch trials take place?

4. Who wrote Two Lectures on the Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races in 1845?

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

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