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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the Salem witch trials take place?
(a) 1692-1693.
(b) 1645-1647.
(c) 1565-1600.
(d) 1499-1501.

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

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

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

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

7. When did Charles II restore the English throne?
(a) 1660.
(b) 1626.
(c) 1689.
(d) 1692.

8. On what date did both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die?
(a) April 11, 1803.
(b) April 17, 1790.
(c) August 17, 1757.
(d) July 4, 1826.

9. Who had sex on the Ark despite having been told not to, according to Genesis of the Bible?
(a) Moses.
(b) Cain.
(c) Abel.
(d) Ham.

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

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

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

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

14. What abolitionist claimed in a paper related on July 14, 1797 that Blackness was a result of a disease such as leprosy?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Hendrik Cesars.
(c) Benjamin Rush.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made his revelation in a 1680 pamphlet criticizing racist planters for making "those two words, Negro and Slave" synonymous (51)?

2. When did Freddie Gray die while in police custody?

3. What church did Increase Mather helm?

4. When did Thomas Jefferson's father die?

5. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?

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