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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 was responsible for the murders in the Charleson church shooting?
(a) Dylann Roof.
(b) Dante Servin.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Darren Wilson.

2. Who invented the mechanical cotton gin?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Hendrik Cesars.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Eli Whitney.

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

4. 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)?
(a) Carl Linnaeus.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

5. Who or what killed the Germantown Petition Against Slavery?
(a) An African slave uprising.
(b) Slave-holding Jews.
(c) Slave-holding Quakers.
(d) A Presidential order.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the concept of uplift suasion, the responsibility for race relations is placed upon whom, according to the author?

2. When was the modern mechanical cotton gin invented?

3. The free Black population in Virginia went from 1,800 in 1782 to what number in 1810?

4. To whom was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given after he was enslaved?

5. What had the population of Boston grown to by the time of John Adams's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is uplift suasion?

6. What was dictated in the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

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

8. Why is it important to the author that the reader know this book is not a history of racial progress?

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

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

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