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

2. Who became "one of the first African Americans to publicly attack the idea of uplift suasion" in the 1830s (179)?
(a) George Fox.
(b) Thomas Bray.
(c) Peter Paul Simons.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

3. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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) 1576.
(d) 1598.

5. When did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1865.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?

2. Who killed Michael Brown?

3. Where did the Black revolt of September 8, 1791 take place?

4. Where did Nat Turner's slave rebellion take place?

5. Who wrote the treatise Commentary on Ephesians?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What conclusions does the author make regarding Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

4. How does the author define prejudice?

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

6. Discuss the book's title. From where did Kendi derive this title?

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

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

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

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

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