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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the brutal slave owner who has Tom killed in Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Simon Legree.
(b) Henry Finard.
(c) James Cordry.
(d) John Robertson.

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

3. What publication did William Lloyd Garrison often use as an antiracist sounding board?
(a) The Gentry.
(b) The Crisis.
(c) The Harlot.
(d) The Liberator.

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

5. Why were White Privileges created?
(a) To help commerce grow in the new world.
(b) To help poor Whites and rich Whites have a more equal level of opportunity.
(c) To keep poor Whites and Blacks from uniting and turning against the Whites in power.
(d) To help create the stock market.

6. Which influential Native American war leader was killed in 1676?
(a) Chief Cross Guns.
(b) Standing Bull.
(c) Metacomet.
(d) Chief Longhorn.

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

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

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

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

11. Which territory did Thomas Jefferson purchase from the French early in his presidency?
(a) The New England Territory.
(b) The Louisiana Territory.
(c) The Western Territory.
(d) The Glacier Territory.

12. Which state was Senator John C. Calhoun from?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Alabama.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Georgia.

13. What kind of book do Reynolds and Kendi tell the reader Stamped is not?
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Memoir.
(c) Poetry.
(d) A history book.

14. Which of the following did writer Richard Baxter believe about slavery?
(a) It was a Marxist idea.
(b) It was the precursor to Capitalism.
(c) It was helpful to slaves.
(d) It was God's will.

15. 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) Independence Days.
(d) Handbook for Future Revolutionaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state was admitted to the Union in 1820 as a free state?

2. How was the world's first racist's book received by the public?

3. What is the main idea behind uplift suasion?

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

5. What does Kendi say is the first step to building an antiracist America?

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