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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 does Kendi confess to the reader about when he began writing Stamped?
(a) He did not want to write about racism.
(b) He had read all of Abraham Lincoln's writings.
(c) He had quite a few racist ideas himself.
(d) He had not read any of Thomas Jefferson's writings.

2. Who did the world's first racist write a biography about, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) Prince Henry.
(b) King Harold.
(c) Hippocrates.
(d) Jesus.

3. When did the First Great Awakening happen?
(a) In the 1710s.
(b) In the 1730s.
(c) In the 1690s.
(d) In the 1750s.

4. Who held the theory that Blacks descended from a "Different Adam" than Whites?
(a) Lucilio Vanini.
(b) Marshall Mathers.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) John Locke.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following rules did slave owners have to help keep slaves from rising up?

2. What book did Cotton Mather write?

3. Where did Cotton Mather attend college?

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

5. What did the Curse Theory say about Africans?

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