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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 20 - 23).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What war did the Americans and British fight in the late 1700s?
(a) The Hundred Years' War.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Revolutionary War.

3. Which formerly enslaved woman wrote an antislavery book?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Joan Bent.
(c) Micheline Maynor.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

4. What did Gabriel and Nancy Prosser do as explained in Chapter 10?
(a) Were the first black couple to own their own land.
(b) Argued a case before the Supreme Court.
(c) Planned a failed slave rebellion.
(d) Wrote a book about slavery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis begin teaching in 1968?

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

3. Where was Stokely Carmichael born?

4. Who do Reynolds and Kendi claim was the world's first racist?

5. Who is the brutal slave owner who has Tom killed in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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