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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which slave did Thomas Jefferson have children with?
(a) Joan Hemings.
(b) Micheline Mayren.
(c) Sally Hemings.
(d) Marion Fare.

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

3. Which of the following ideas did Jefferson promote in the late 1700s?
(a) The northern states had a responsibility to fight against slavery.
(b) Slaves should be freed after the next two decades.
(c) All slaves deserved freedom except for the ones he owned.
(d) Slaves should be sent back to Africa.

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

5. Where did Thomas Jefferson go upon his retirement from public life?
(a) Boston.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Monticello.
(d) Freedmont.

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

7. Which Spanish ship carrying slaves was hijacked in 1619?
(a) The Santa Maria Domingo.
(b) The Santiago de Caligula.
(c) The Mariachi Marina.
(d) The San Juan Bautista.

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

9. Which of the following books did Thomas Jefferson write?
(a) Notes on the State of Virginia.
(b) The Real History of Paul Revere's Ride.
(c) Handbook for Future Revolutionaries.
(d) Independence Days.

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

11. What did the Three-Fifths Compromise state?
(a) That three-fifths of the states should be free states.
(b) That African Americans should count as three-fifths of a white person.
(c) That people should only get to vote in three-fifths of the toal number of elections.
(d) That three-fifths of the states should be slave states.

12. 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 read all of Abraham Lincoln's writings.
(c) He did not want to write about racism.
(d) He had quite a few racist ideas himself.

13. According to Kendi, what do antiracists believe?
(a) Racism can be combated by reading certain types of literature.
(b) All racism needs to be rooted out in childhood.
(c) Racism is the problem of politicians only.
(d) Racism is the problem in need of changing, not Black people.

14. What book did Cotton Mather write?
(a) How to Tell a Witch From a Woman.
(b) Memorable Providence, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions.
(c) Witch Handbook.
(d) On the Witchcraftery Next Door.

15. What group was William Lloyd Garrison instrumental in creating in the end of Chapter 11?
(a) The SNCC.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS).
(d) The PABT.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Reynolds and Kendi refer to as The Great Contradictor?

2. What club did Benjamin Franklin begin in 1743?

3. Why were White Privileges created?

4. Which politician's rise came shortly after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

5. When did Thomas Jefferson die?

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