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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following phrases does Reynolds put forth to the reader that he says his mother would often say?
(a) Don't throw a stone, then hide your hand.
(b) People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
(c) Trust but verify.
(d) It is always darkest before the dawn.

2. What do Reynolds and Kendi say race has been in American history throughout the ages?
(a) A strange and persistent poson.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) A solvable problem.
(d) An enigma.

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

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

5. Chapter 7 consists of one sentence that says Africans are NOT which of the following?
(a) Humans.
(b) Savages.
(c) Inspirations.
(d) Examples.

6. What happened with the question of admitting Missouri as a state in the U.S. in the early 1800s?
(a) Missouri was admitted to the South as a slave state in the early 1800s.
(b) Missouri was not admitted to the U.S. as a state at all in the early 1800s.
(c) Missouri was admitted to the South as a free state in the early 1800s.
(d) Missouri was admitted to the U.S. as a slave state in the North, or Union.

7. What religion did Cotton and Mather practice?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Lutheranism.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Puritanism.

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

9. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Phillis Wheatley.
(b) Micheline Stowe.
(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(d) Tom Roberts.

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

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

12. What does Kendi say he wanted to explore in writing Stamped From The Beginning?
(a) Racist ideas in Canada.
(b) Racist ideas in Eastern Europe.
(c) The source of racist ideas.
(d) Racist ideas in China.

13. 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 had intentionally cast a curse on themselves.
(d) That they were a cursed people because of God's will.

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

15. The year Thomas Jefferson died, about how much debt did he have?
(a) $1,000,000.
(b) $100,000.
(c) $500,000.
(d) $750,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Jefferson move in 1884?

2. What was the title of the pamphlet David Walker wrote?

3. Who did the world's first racist write a biography about, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

4. What new technology did members of the AASS rely on to spread abolitionist messages in 1835?

5. Which formerly enslaved woman wrote an antislavery book?

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