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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 6 - 12).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which young Black girl had extraordinary talents as a poet in the 1700s in America?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) Phyllis Wheatley.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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

3. What period of time did uplift suasion seem to be working as intended in?
(a) The 1790s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1850s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first university to be opened in the U.S.?

2. Chapter 7 consists of one sentence that says Africans are NOT which of the following?

3. Which of the following books did Thomas Jefferson write?

4. What state was admitted to the Union in 1820 as a free state?

5. The year Thomas Jefferson died, about how much debt did he have?

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