View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For what publication was Ephraim W. Allen editor?
(a) The London Globe.
(b) The Newburyport Herald.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Philadelphia Tribune.

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

4. Who wrote Two Lectures on the Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races in 1845?
(a) Josiah Nott.
(b) Thomas Bray.
(c) Morgan Godwyn.
(d) George Fox.

5. What theory did Aristotle develop to justify Greek superiority?
(a) Curse theory.
(b) Climate theory.
(c) Naturalization theory.
(d) Ascension theory.

6. Who wrote The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Paul Baynes.
(c) Richard Hakluyt.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

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

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

9. In the Black revolt of September 8, 1791, a force of 100,000 African freedom fighters had killed more than how many enslavers within two months?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 5,000.

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

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

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

13. The free Black population in Virginia went from 1,800 in 1782 to what number in 1810?
(a) 30,570.
(b) 12,350.
(c) 23,150.
(d) 16,950.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had the population of Boston grown to by the time of John Adams's death?

2. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?

3. Who brought the First Great Awakening to Virginia?

4. Who wrote The Selling of Joseph?

5. On what date did both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 330 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample