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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. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?

2. What act on March 26, 1790 limited citizenship to "free white persons" of "good character" (121)?

3. When did Freddie Gray die while in police custody?

4. When did Nobel Laureate Gunnar Mydral produce a study of race relations?

5. When was the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What led the Spanish colonists after Columbus to turn to Africa for slave labor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the impacts of the War on Drugs on racism in America. Statistically, what disparities can be seen between Blacks and Whites within the prison system? What justifications are used to explain these disparities? How did the War on Drugs serve to develop an even greater racist culture in the U.S.?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the origins and history of curse theory. When and where did this theory arise? How was this theory used to justify racism and slavery? How did this theory oppose climate theory?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the viewpoints of Voltaire and Buffon. What line of thought does each of these thinkers express? Why? How did their perceptions of Blacks differ generally?

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