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

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

3. Who killed Michael Brown?
(a) George Zimmerman.
(b) Dylann Roof.
(c) Dante Servin.
(d) Darren Wilson.

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

5. What did George Best observe about the Inuit people of northeastern Canada on his voyage in 1577?
(a) They were paler than the people living in the south.
(b) They were shorter than people living in the south.
(c) They were taller than people living in the south.
(d) They were darker than people living in the south.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?

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

3. Who became "one of the first African Americans to publicly attack the idea of uplift suasion" in the 1830s (179)?

4. Where was John Woolman from?

5. What Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the Enlightenment?

3. What is Carl Linnaeus's significance in racial history?

4. What is Voltaire's significance in racial history?

5. What is climate theory?

6. What did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 dictate?

7. How did the invention of the cotton gin impact slavery?

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

9. Who was Peter Paul Simons and what did he contribute to the racial debate?

10. Why were slave-owners reluctant to baptize their slaves in the 1600s?

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