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

2. When did minstrel shows emerge in the U.S.?
(a) The 1850s.
(b) The 1790s.
(c) The 1820s.
(d) The 1830s.

3. When did Nobel Laureate Gunnar Mydral produce a study of race relations?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1944.

4. What German author wrote History of the Art of Antiquity in 1764?
(a) Aphra Behn.
(b) Johann Joachim Winkelmann.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Thomas Bray.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?

2. When was Cotton Mather born?

3. Who wrote The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation?

4. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?

5. When did the Salem witch trials take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is climate theory?

5. What racist stereotypes were reinforced by "An Essay Concering Humane Understanding"?

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

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

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

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

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

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