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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. The author indicates that at the time the book was written, Federal data shows that the median wealth of White households is how many more times the median wealth of Black households?

2. Who invented the mechanical cotton gin?

3. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?

4. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?

5. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?

Short Essay Questions

1. What racist stereotypes were reinforced by "An Essay Concering Humane Understanding"?

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

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

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

5. Define the three sides of the racial debate, according to the author.

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the contemporary climate of racism in America and how this climate inspired Ibram X. Kendi's writing of Stamped from the Beginning. What examples of police shootings, trials, and activist movements does Kendi describe in the Prologue? In what ways have these events shaped contemporary society?

Essay Topic 2

Describe climate theory in regards to race. When did this theory emerge? Where and from whom did it emerge? How was climate theory used to justify racism?

Essay Topic 3

What were the impacts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? What backlash came with the act? How did the act influence the Black vote? What powers were given to enforce the act?

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