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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When did Pedro de Las Casas publish History of the Indes?
(a) 1523.
(b) 1590.
(c) 1570.
(d) 1561.

5. How many times more likely are Black people to be incarcerated in comparison with their White counterparts?
(a) Five times more likely.
(b) Three times more likely.
(c) Two times more likely.
(d) Eight times more likely.

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

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

8. Who invented the mechanical cotton gin?
(a) Hendrik Cesars.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Eli Whitney.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

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

10. 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 Emancipation Act.
(d) The Confiscation Act.

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

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

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

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

15. What name was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given when he was released from slavery?
(a) George Fox.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) Paul Baynes.
(d) Johannes Leo.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When did Thomas Jefferson's father die?

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

4. Who wrote Essay on Universal History in 1756?

5. Who was responsible for the murders in the Charleson church shooting?

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