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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. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?
(a) 30%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 20%.
2. Why did Richard Mather come to America?
(a) To evade the French authorities.
(b) To attend his arranged marriage.
(c) To seek gold.
(d) Religious persecution.
3. When did John Locke move to London to become the personal physician of Lord Cooper?
(a) 1702.
(b) 1667.
(c) 1689.
(d) 1599.
4. Who wrote Two Lectures on the Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races in 1845?
(a) Thomas Bray.
(b) George Fox.
(c) Morgan Godwyn.
(d) Josiah Nott.
5. Who wrote The Selling of Joseph?
(a) Thomas Bray.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) George Fox.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who painted Portrait d'une negresse in 1800?
2. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?
3. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?
4. Who brought the First Great Awakening to Virginia?
5. According to the author in Chapter 7, who became associated to associating "lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand and ... darkness and Blackness and ignorance, on the other" (81)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What led the Spanish colonists after Columbus to turn to Africa for slave labor?
2. What conclusions does the author make regarding Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
3. Discuss the book's title. From where did Kendi derive this title?
4. What does the term "extraordinary Negro" refer to?
5. What is curse theory?
6. What did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 dictate?
7. Who are the five main figures that are the book's "tour guides" (6)? Why has the author chosen these individuals?
8. Why were slave-owners reluctant to baptize their slaves in the 1600s?
9. What is Carl Linnaeus's significance in racial history?
10. What were William Lloyd Garrison's views when he first emerged as an abolitionist in the late 1820s?
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