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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Thomas Jefferson born?

2. Who was the naturalist that adopted the name Buffon?

3. Why did Richard Mather come to America?

4. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?

5. What German author wrote History of the Art of Antiquity in 1764?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is climate theory?

2. What is polygenism? How did it promote racism?

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

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

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

6. When and where did Nat Turner's Rebellion take place? What were its impacts?

7. What is monogenism?

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

9. Discuss the ironies of the Declaration of Independence.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the lives, careers, and activist work of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. How did King and Malcolm X differ in their views and their actions? What similar ideas did they share? How did each man influence and inspire Blacks to seek equality? What were the impacts of their assassinations?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the concept of Carl Linnaeus's classification of humans into four separate species. How did this promote racist thought? What further hierarchies were then developed? What did they imply?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the life, career, and work of W. E. B. Du Bois. When and where was Du Bois born? What views and ideals did Du Bois embrace early in his career? How did those ideals change over the course of his life? Why did they change? What are the successes and failures of Du Bois?

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