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

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

3. The author indicates that at the time the book was written, Federal data shows that the median wealth of White households is how many more times the median wealth of Black households?
(a) 9 times more.
(b) 4 times more.
(c) 13 times more.
(d) 5 times more.

4. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?
(a) 1499.
(b) 1562.
(c) 1598.
(d) 1576.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Peter Jefferson's tobacco plantation?

2. When was the Germantown Petition Against Slavery produced?

3. When did John Locke move to London to become the personal physician of Lord Cooper?

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

5. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Enlightenment?

2. What influence did Aristotle have on the views of the Puritans regarding slavery?

3. What led the Spanish colonists after Columbus to turn to Africa for slave labor?

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

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

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

7. When did the Haitian Revolution take place and what was the outcome of the revolution?

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

9. Discuss the ironies of the Declaration of Independence.

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

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