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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. Who do Reynolds and Kendi claim was the world's first racist?
(a) Wilhelm Winkle.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Gomes Eanes de Zurara.
(d) Adolf Hitler.

2. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Micheline Stowe.
(c) Phillis Wheatley.
(d) Tom Roberts.

3. Who do Reynolds and Kendi refer to as The Great Contradictor?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Marshall Mathers.

4. What book did Cotton Mather write?
(a) On the Witchcraftery Next Door.
(b) How to Tell a Witch From a Woman.
(c) Memorable Providence, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions.
(d) Witch Handbook.

5. Which of the following ideas did Jefferson promote in the late 1700s?
(a) The northern states had a responsibility to fight against slavery.
(b) Slaves should be sent back to Africa.
(c) All slaves deserved freedom except for the ones he owned.
(d) Slaves should be freed after the next two decades.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Puritans stipulate at the opening of the first U.S. university?

2. What do assimilationists think about combatting racism?

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

4. When did Thomas Jefferson die?

5. What do Reynolds and Kendi say race has been in American history throughout the ages?

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