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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 do assimilationists think about combatting racism?
(a) They think Black people need to read more White authors.
(b) They think Black people need to transform themselves to become more like White people.
(c) They need to transform people's views of racism through pop culture.
(d) The need to change people's minds through religion.

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

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

4. How was the world's first racist's book received by the public?
(a) It was a bestseller.
(b) It was only sold to schools.
(c) It hardly sold any copies.
(d) It was only sold to churches.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the First Great Awakening happen?

2. What religion did Cotton and Mather practice?

3. What book did Cotton Mather write?

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

5. Why did plantation owners show little interest in religiously converting slaves?

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