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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the head of the American Colonization Society in the early 1800s?
(a) Jackson Brown.
(b) James Monroe.
(c) Robert Finley.
(d) John Madison.

3. Why did plantation owners show little interest in religiously converting slaves?
(a) They did not want slaves to be able to read the Bible.
(b) They did not like Puritanism.
(c) They did not much care for religion themselves.
(d) They were only interested in slaves to make more money.

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

5. What was the title of the pamphlet David Walker wrote?
(a) A Fine Example of Friendship.
(b) An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.
(c) A History of Slavery in the United States.
(d) A Rumination on Benefits.

6. How did the world's first racist depict Africans in his book, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) As lazy people who needed to be instilled with a better work ethic.
(b) As people who were physically well-suited for work.
(c) As lost souls who could be rehabilitated.
(d) As savages that needed training.

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

8. What book did Cotton Mather write?
(a) How to Tell a Witch From a Woman.
(b) Memorable Providence, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions.
(c) On the Witchcraftery Next Door.
(d) Witch Handbook.

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following rules did slave owners have to help keep slaves from rising up?

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

3. Who do Reynolds and Kendi claim was the world's first racist?

4. Who do Reynolds and Kendi refer to as The Great Contradictor?

5. What was the book that the world's first racist wrote titled, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

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