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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Chapters 1 - 5).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What difficulty did Cotton Mather have?
(a) A limp.
(b) A stutter.
(c) Blindness.
(d) A disfigured face.

2. What did the Puritans stipulate at the opening of the first U.S. university?
(a) Greek and Latin texts could not be disputed.
(b) Women were allowed to attend, but only in small numbers.
(c) All the professors had to be priests.
(d) Blacks were allowed to attend as long as they worked at the university, too.

3. What religion did Cotton and Mather practice?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Puritanism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Lutheranism.

4. Where did Cotton Mather attend college?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Virginia Tech.
(c) University of Pennsylvania.
(d) University of Michigan.

5. Why were White Privileges created?
(a) To help commerce grow in the new world.
(b) To keep poor Whites and Blacks from uniting and turning against the Whites in power.
(c) To help poor Whites and rich Whites have a more equal level of opportunity.
(d) To help create the stock market.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the world's first racist write a biography about, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

2. What does Kendi say is the first step to building an antiracist America?

3. When did Cotton Mather die?

4. What kind of book do Reynolds and Kendi tell the reader Stamped is not?

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

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