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

2. Where did the Black revolt of September 8, 1791 take place?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Mississippi.

3. Who had sex on the Ark despite having been told not to, according to Genesis of the Bible?
(a) Abel.
(b) Ham.
(c) Moses.
(d) Cain.

4. When did Nat Turner organize and execture one of the country's most notorious slave rebellions?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1818.

5. What abolitionist claimed in a paper related on July 14, 1797 that Blackness was a result of a disease such as leprosy?
(a) Hendrik Cesars.
(b) Benjamin Rush.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Napoleon renounce Louisiana?

2. What German author wrote History of the Art of Antiquity in 1764?

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

4. What abolitionist essay did John Woolman publish in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1752?

5. When did Pedro de Las Casas publish History of the Indes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Leo Africanus notable historically?

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

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

4. What was the Enlightenment?

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

6. What is monogenism?

7. Define the three sides of the racial debate, according to the author.

8. What were William Lloyd Garrison's views when he first emerged as an abolitionist in the late 1820s?

9. What impact did mistrel shows have on racist perceptions?

10. What were the impacts of Bacon's Rebellion?

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