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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Thomas Jefferson die?
(a) July 4, 1826.
(b) May 8, 1843.
(c) July 2, 1850.
(d) July 4, 1890.

3. What did the Climate Theory say about Africans?
(a) They were redeemable because of the churches in their homelands.
(b) They were savages because of the hot weather where they came from.
(c) They were savages because of the cold climate they came from.
(d) They would only be able to work in places with similar climates to where they grew up.

4. What difficulty did Cotton Mather have?
(a) Blindness.
(b) A limp.
(c) A disfigured face.
(d) A stutter.

5. Who did the world's first racist write a biography about, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) Hippocrates.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Prince Henry.
(d) King Harold.

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

7. When did Cotton Mather die?
(a) 1750.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1787.
(d) 1728.

8. What did writer John Locke believe about Blacks?
(a) They were better musicians than whites.
(b) They were more violent than Whites.
(c) They had better physical health than Whites.
(d) They had less agile and developed minds than Whites.

9. Where did Thomas Jefferson build his first plantation?
(a) Ann Arbor, Michigan.
(b) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(c) Charlottesville, Virginia.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

10. Which of the following famous lines did Thomas Jefferson pen in the Declaration of Independence?
(a) This day will live in infamy.
(b) All men are created equal.
(c) Four score and seven years ago.
(d) The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

11. How old was Thomas Jefferson in 1776?
(a) 40.
(b) 76.
(c) 16.
(d) 33.

12. What new technology did members of the AASS rely on to spread abolitionist messages in 1835?
(a) The telegram.
(b) The typewriter.
(c) The printing press.
(d) The telephone.

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

14. Which other former president died on the same day as Thomas Jefferson?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened with the question of admitting Missouri as a state in the U.S. in the early 1800s?

2. Which influential Native American war leader was killed in 1676?

3. Which formerly enslaved woman wrote an antislavery book?

4. What do Reynolds and Kendi say race has been in American history throughout the ages?

5. Where did Cotton Mather attend college?

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