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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 is the main idea behind uplift suasion?
(a) That if Blacks pretended to not be able to read, they had a better chance of gaining acceptance.
(b) That if Blacks embraced their own culture, they had a better chance of being acceptance.
(c) That if Blacks became business owners themselves, they had a better chance of gaining acceptance.
(d) That if Blacks behaved admirably - which meant like White people - they had a greater chance of gaining acceptance.

2. Which of the following famous lines did Thomas Jefferson pen in the Declaration of Independence?
(a) The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
(b) All men are created equal.
(c) This day will live in infamy.
(d) Four score and seven years ago.

3. What group was William Lloyd Garrison instrumental in creating in the end of Chapter 11?
(a) The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS).
(b) The NAACP.
(c) The PABT.
(d) The SNCC.

4. What club did Benjamin Franklin begin in 1743?
(a) The American Philosophical Society.
(b) The Benjamin Club.
(c) The Benjamin Society.
(d) The Colonial Society.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The year Thomas Jefferson died, about how much debt did he have?

2. Which formerly enslaved woman wrote an antislavery book?

3. Where did Cotton Mather attend college?

4. Which scientist in Chapter 12, the father of American anthropology, measured skulls as an indicator of intelligence?

5. Which of the following phrases does Reynolds put forth to the reader that he says his mother would often say?

(see the answer key)

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