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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What state was admitted to the Union in 1820 as a free state?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Maine.
(d) Massachusetts.
2. Why were White Privileges created?
(a) To help poor Whites and rich Whites have a more equal level of opportunity.
(b) To help commerce grow in the new world.
(c) To keep poor Whites and Blacks from uniting and turning against the Whites in power.
(d) To help create the stock market.
3. What kind of book do Reynolds and Kendi tell the reader Stamped is not?
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Memoir.
(c) A history book.
(d) Poetry.
4. What does Kendi confess to the reader about when he began writing Stamped?
(a) He had read all of Abraham Lincoln's writings.
(b) He had not read any of Thomas Jefferson's writings.
(c) He did not want to write about racism.
(d) He had quite a few racist ideas himself.
5. What did the Curse Theory say about Africans?
(a) That they were a cursed people because of God's will.
(b) That the Salem Witches had cast curses on them.
(c) That they had intentionally cast a curse on themselves.
(d) That they had accidentally cast a curse on themselves.
6. What does Kendi say is the first step to building an antiracist America?
(a) Reading the writings of Von Nuremburg.
(b) Acknowledging America's racist past.
(c) Reading the writings of Aristotle.
(d) Understanding how Harvard University was founded.
7. What group was William Lloyd Garrison instrumental in creating in the end of Chapter 11?
(a) The NAACP.
(b) The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS).
(c) The PABT.
(d) The SNCC.
8. What did the Great Compromise create?
(a) The Electoral College.
(b) The House and the Senate in the U.S.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) The Supreme Court.
9. What do Reynolds and Kendi say race has been in American history throughout the ages?
(a) A solvable problem.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) A strange and persistent poson.
(d) An enigma.
10. What publication did William Lloyd Garrison often use as an antiracist sounding board?
(a) The Gentry.
(b) The Harlot.
(c) The Crisis.
(d) The Liberator.
11. How old was Thomas Jefferson in 1776?
(a) 40.
(b) 33.
(c) 76.
(d) 16.
12. Which young Black girl had extraordinary talents as a poet in the 1700s in America?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Harriet Tubman.
(d) Phyllis Wheatley.
13. 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.
14. What religion did Cotton and Mather practice?
(a) Lutheranism.
(b) Protestantism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Puritanism.
15. Which country became the Eastern Hemisphere's symbol of freedom following a slave rebellion there in the late 1700s?
(a) England.
(b) Brazil.
(c) America.
(d) Haiti.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Jefferson move in 1884?
2. When did the First Great Awakening happen?
3. Where did Frederick Douglass travel to spread his antislavery message?
4. How was the world's first racist's book received by the public?
5. Which territory did Thomas Jefferson purchase from the French early in his presidency?
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