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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Peter Paul Simons.
(d) George Fox.

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

4. What Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?
(a) Carl Linnaeus.
(b) Aphra Behn.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

5. Who was responsible for the murders in the Charleson church shooting?
(a) Darren Wilson.
(b) Dante Servin.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Dylann Roof.

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

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

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. When did Nobel Laureate Gunnar Mydral produce a study of race relations?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1955.

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

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

12. What English Dissenter prevailed on the Quakers to convert the enslaved in 1657?
(a) Paul Baynes.
(b) Richard Hakluyt.
(c) John Cotton.
(d) George Fox.

13. What church did Increase Mather helm?
(a) The Episcopalian Church of Boston.
(b) The South Church of Boston.
(c) The North Church of Boston.
(d) The Quaker Church of Boston.

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

15. In the concept of uplift suasion, the responsibility for race relations is placed upon whom, according to the author?
(a) Women.
(b) Male voters.
(c) White Americans.
(d) Black Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sandra Bland found hanged in her jail cell?

2. Who had sex on the Ark despite having been told not to, according to Genesis of the Bible?

3. 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)?

4. Where did the Black revolt of September 8, 1791 take place?

5. When did Napoleon renounce Louisiana?

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