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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Freddie Gray die while in police custody?
(a) March 26, 2013.
(b) June 15, 2014.
(c) April 12, 2015.
(d) March 15, 2011.

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

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

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

6. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?
(a) Ceuta.
(b) Cordoba.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Manatowak.

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

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

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

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

11. What publication did William Lloyd Garrison create and use to encourage "free Blacks to challenge 'every law which infringes on your rights'" (168)?
(a) The Pulse.
(b) The Shadow.
(c) The Liberator.
(d) The Gazette.

12. Who made his revelation in a 1680 pamphlet criticizing racist planters for making "those two words, Negro and Slave" synonymous (51)?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Paul Baynes.
(c) George Fox.
(d) John Mather.

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

14. Who gave the speech from which the author derived the title Stamped from the Beginning?
(a) Darren Wilson.
(b) Jefferson Davis.
(c) Dante Servin.
(d) George Zimmerman.

15. Who was the Quaker founder and editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation?
(a) Thomas Bray.
(b) Frances Maria Lloyd.
(c) Benjamin Lundy.
(d) Hendrik Cesars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times more likely were young Black males to be killed by police than their White counterparts between 2010 and 2012?

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

3. To whom was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given after he was enslaved?

4. What church did Increase Mather helm?

5. Who is referred to in Chapter 11 as "That rare segregationist who rejected polygenesis," believing "that all humans descended from Europe's Garden of Eden" (138)?

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