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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. How much of the nation's wealth is owned by African Americans?
2. What theory did Aristotle develop to justify Greek superiority?
3. When was the decision found in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?
4. When was Sandra Bland found hanged in her jail cell?
5. Who is referred to in Chapter 11 as "That rare segregationist who rejected polygenesis," believing "that all humans descended from Europe's Garden of Eden" (138)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is monogenism?
2. What were William Lloyd Garrison's views when he first emerged as an abolitionist in the late 1820s?
3. How does the author define prejudice?
4. When and where did Nat Turner's Rebellion take place? What were its impacts?
5. Why is it important to the author that the reader know this book is not a history of racial progress?
6. Who was Peter Paul Simons and what did he contribute to the racial debate?
7. Who was Phillis Wheatly and why is she important in American history?
8. How did Western Europ gain access to goods from Africa?
9. What was decreed by the first Naturalization Act of 1790?
10. What is Carl Linnaeus's significance in racial history?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the life, career, and works of Angela Davis. When and where was Davis born? How did this setting influence Davis's later life and career? What were the inciting moments that motivated Davis as an activist?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the views on slavery and its practices in the Medieval ages in Europe and Africa. What were Muslim views on slavery? What influenced these views? When were the first African slaves brought to Europe?
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