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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 say he wanted to explore in writing Stamped From The Beginning?
(a) Racist ideas in Canada.
(b) The source of racist ideas.
(c) Racist ideas in Eastern Europe.
(d) Racist ideas in China.

2. Why did plantation owners show little interest in religiously converting slaves?
(a) They did not like Puritanism.
(b) They did not want slaves to be able to read the Bible.
(c) They did not much care for religion themselves.
(d) They were only interested in slaves to make more money.

3. Where did Thomas Jefferson build his first plantation?
(a) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(b) Charlottesville, Virginia.
(c) Ann Arbor, Michigan.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What club did Benjamin Franklin begin in 1743?

3. Which influential Native American war leader was killed in 1676?

4. Which Spanish ship carrying slaves was hijacked in 1619?

5. Why were White Privileges created?

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