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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With what slave did Thomas Jefferson have an affair?
(a) Annie Ross.
(b) Sally Hemings.
(c) Anna Lace.
(d) Mary Stephens.

3. Who was William Lloyd Garrison's mother?
(a) Frances Maria Lloyd.
(b) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(c) Anna Maria Garrison.
(d) Sally Hemings.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?

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

3. When was Thomas Jefferson born?

4. What act on March 26, 1790 limited citizenship to "free white persons" of "good character" (121)?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Western Europ gain access to goods from Africa?

2. What discovery did Cotton Mather make during the smallpox outbreak of 1721?

3. When and where did Nat Turner's Rebellion take place? What were its impacts?

4. What is uplift suasion?

5. What events led to the development of the #Black Lives Matter movement? What impact has the movement had?

6. Who was Phillis Wheatly and why is she important in American history?

7. What does the term "extraordinary Negro" refer to?

8. Why is it important to the author that the reader know this book is not a history of racial progress?

9. What was the Enlightenment?

10. What was decreed by the first Naturalization Act of 1790?

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