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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 13 - 19).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the 1892 pamphlet Southern Horros: Lynch Law in All Its Phases?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Phillis Wheatley.
(c) Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

2. What was the first university to be opened in the U.S.?
(a) University of Virginia.
(b) University of Pennsylvania.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Michigan University.

3. What did the Curse Theory say about Africans?
(a) That they had accidentally cast a curse on themselves.
(b) That the Salem Witches had cast curses on them.
(c) That they were a cursed people because of God's will.
(d) That they had intentionally cast a curse on themselves.

4. What did the Great Compromise create?
(a) The Supreme Court.
(b) The Electoral College.
(c) The House and the Senate in the U.S.
(d) The Constitution.

5. What did the Puritans stipulate at the opening of the first U.S. university?
(a) Women were allowed to attend, but only in small numbers.
(b) All the professors had to be priests.
(c) Blacks were allowed to attend as long as they worked at the university, too.
(d) Greek and Latin texts could not be disputed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kendi confess to the reader about when he began writing Stamped?

2. What was Abraham Lincoln's most famous moniker?

3. Which scientist in Chapter 12, the father of American anthropology, measured skulls as an indicator of intelligence?

4. What did Gabriel and Nancy Prosser do as explained in Chapter 10?

5. Which conflict happened during Abraham Lincoln's presidency?

(see the answer key)

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