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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What act on March 26, 1790 limited citizenship to "free white persons" of "good character" (121)?
(a) The Emancipation Act.
(b) The Confiscation Act.
(c) The Segregation Act.
(d) The Naturalization Act.

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

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

5. 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) 14 times more likely.
(c) 10 times more likely.
(d) 21 times more likely.

6. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1576.
(c) 1499.
(d) 1562.

7. 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.

8. When did Thomas Jefferson's father die?
(a) December 24, 1860.
(b) April 17, 1790.
(c) April 11, 1803.
(d) August 17, 1757.

9. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?
(a) Assimilationists.
(b) Abolitionists.
(c) Antiracists.
(d) Segregationists.

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

11. How much of the nation's wealth is owned by African Americans?
(a) 7.5%.
(b) 2.7%.
(c) 4.9%.
(d) 9.2%.

12. Who killed Michael Brown?
(a) Darren Wilson.
(b) Dante Servin.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Dylann Roof.

13. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) A river.
(c) A painting.
(d) A slave ship.

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

15. 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) 5 times more.
(b) 9 times more.
(c) 13 times more.
(d) 4 times more.

Short Answer Questions

1. What church did Increase Mather helm?

2. When was the American Anti-Slavery Society formed?

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

4. When was Thomas Jefferson born?

5. Who gave the speech from which the author derived the title Stamped from the Beginning?

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