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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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 embraced their own culture, they had a better chance of being acceptance.
(c) That if Blacks behaved admirably - which meant like White people - they had a greater chance of gaining acceptance.
(d) That if Blacks pretended to not be able to read, they had a better chance of gaining acceptance.

7. 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.

8. Where did Frederick Douglass travel to spread his antislavery message?
(a) Britain.
(b) Germany.
(c) Spain.
(d) Italy.

9. 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 savages that needed training.
(c) As lost souls who could be rehabilitated.
(d) As people who were physically well-suited for work.

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

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

12. What was the book that the world's first racist wrote titled, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea.
(b) Prince Henry's Tome.
(c) Marshall Your Courage.
(d) Prince Harold's Praise.

13. 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.

14. What do assimilationists think about combatting racism?
(a) They need to transform people's views of racism through pop culture.
(b) They think Black people need to read more White authors.
(c) They think Black people need to transform themselves to become more like White people.
(d) The need to change people's minds through religion.

15. Chapter 7 consists of one sentence that says Africans are NOT which of the following?
(a) Savages.
(b) Humans.
(c) Examples.
(d) Inspirations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kendi say he wanted to explore in writing Stamped From The Beginning?

2. Which of the following ideas did Jefferson promote in the late 1700s?

3. Which of the following famous lines did Thomas Jefferson pen in the Declaration of Independence?

4. What did the Curse Theory say about Africans?

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

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