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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 6 - 12).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Three-Fifths Compromise state?
(a) That people should only get to vote in three-fifths of the toal number of elections.
(b) That three-fifths of the states should be slave states.
(c) That African Americans should count as three-fifths of a white person.
(d) That three-fifths of the states should be free states.

2. What did the Climate Theory say about Africans?
(a) They were savages because of the cold climate they came from.
(b) They were redeemable because of the churches in their homelands.
(c) They were savages because of the hot weather where they came from.
(d) They would only be able to work in places with similar climates to where they grew up.

3. What was the book that the world's first racist wrote titled, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) Marshall Your Courage.
(b) Prince Henry's Tome.
(c) Prince Harold's Praise.
(d) The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea.

4. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?
(a) I have Black friends.
(b) I am the least racist person you know.
(c) I have White friends.
(d) I am not a racist, but.

5. What was the title of the pamphlet David Walker wrote?
(a) An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.
(b) A History of Slavery in the United States.
(c) A Rumination on Benefits.
(d) A Fine Example of Friendship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kendi say he wanted to explore in writing Stamped From The Beginning?

2. When did Thomas Jefferson die?

3. Where did Thomas Jefferson go upon his retirement from public life?

4. How did the world's first racist depict Africans in his book, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

5. What war did the Americans and British fight in the late 1700s?

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