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

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

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

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

5. What is the main idea behind uplift suasion?
(a) That if Blacks became business owners themselves, they had a better chance of gaining acceptance.
(b) That if Blacks behaved admirably - which meant like White people - they had a greater chance of gaining acceptance.
(c) That if Blacks pretended to not be able to read, they had a better chance of gaining acceptance.
(d) That if Blacks embraced their own culture, they had a better chance of being acceptance.

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

7. Which country became the Eastern Hemisphere's symbol of freedom following a slave rebellion there in the late 1700s?
(a) Haiti.
(b) England.
(c) Brazil.
(d) America.

8. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?
(a) I have White friends.
(b) I am not a racist, but.
(c) I have Black friends.
(d) I am the least racist person you know.

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

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

11. Which formerly enslaved woman wrote an antislavery book?
(a) Joan Bent.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) Micheline Maynor.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Puritans stipulate at the opening of the first U.S. university?

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

3. Which of the following phrases does Reynolds put forth to the reader that he says his mother would often say?

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

5. What did the Climate Theory say about Africans?

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