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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Thomas Jefferson born?
(a) 1765.
(b) 1743.
(c) 1648.
(d) 1723.

2. Whose acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin set off the #Black Lives Matter movement?
(a) Dylann Roof.
(b) Darren Wilson.
(c) Dante Servin.
(d) George Zimmerman.

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

4. 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 Liberator.
(b) The Shadow.
(c) The Gazette.
(d) The Pulse.

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

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

7. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?
(a) George Fox.
(b) Paul Baynes.
(c) Morgan Godwyn.
(d) Aphra Behn.

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

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

10. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?
(a) 1695.
(b) 1636.
(c) 1632.
(d) 1674.

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

12. Who wrote the treatise Commentary on Ephesians?
(a) Paul Baynes.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Morgan Godwyn.
(d) Thomas Bray.

13. 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.

14. Where did Nat Turner's slave rebellion take place?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Virginia.

15. Where was Rekia Boyd fatally shot?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Miami.
(c) New York.
(d) Houston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Two Lectures on the Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races in 1845?

2. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?

3. Who made his revelation in a 1680 pamphlet criticizing racist planters for making "those two words, Negro and Slave" synonymous (51)?

4. When was the modern mechanical cotton gin invented?

5. Who or what killed the Germantown Petition Against Slavery?

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