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

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

3. What does Kendi say is the first step to building an antiracist America?
(a) Reading the writings of Von Nuremburg.
(b) Acknowledging America's racist past.
(c) Understanding how Harvard University was founded.
(d) Reading the writings of Aristotle.

4. When did Cotton Mather die?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1750.
(c) 1728.
(d) 1787.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Climate Theory say about Africans?

2. Where did Cotton Mather attend college?

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

4. Who bought some of the first slaves to come to America from Africa?

5. According to Kendi, what do antiracists believe?

(see the answer key)

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