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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Curse Theory say about Africans?
(a) That they were a cursed people because of God's will.
(b) That they had accidentally cast a curse on themselves.
(c) That the Salem Witches had cast curses on them.
(d) That they had intentionally cast a curse on themselves.

2. How was the world's first racist's book received by the public?
(a) It hardly sold any copies.
(b) It was a bestseller.
(c) It was only sold to churches.
(d) It was only sold to schools.

3. 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 people who were physically well-suited for work.
(d) As lost souls who could be rehabilitated.

4. What do Reynolds and Kendi say race has been in American history throughout the ages?
(a) A nightmare.
(b) A solvable problem.
(c) An enigma.
(d) A strange and persistent poson.

5. What did the Three-Fifths Compromise state?
(a) That three-fifths of the states should be slave states.
(b) That three-fifths of the states should be free states.
(c) That people should only get to vote in three-fifths of the toal number of elections.
(d) That African Americans should count as three-fifths of a white person.

6. Who spearheaded the First Great Awakening?
(a) John Kenyans.
(b) Cotton Jenson.
(c) Richard Mather.
(d) Jonathan Edwards.

7. Who do Reynolds and Kendi refer to as The Great Contradictor?
(a) Marshall Mathers.
(b) George Washington.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

8. What does Kendi say he wanted to explore in writing Stamped From The Beginning?
(a) Racist ideas in Eastern Europe.
(b) The source of racist ideas.
(c) Racist ideas in China.
(d) Racist ideas in Canada.

9. What does Kendi confess to the reader about when he began writing Stamped?
(a) He had not read any of Thomas Jefferson's writings.
(b) He did not want to write about racism.
(c) He had quite a few racist ideas himself.
(d) He had read all of Abraham Lincoln's writings.

10. Which of the following rules did slave owners have to help keep slaves from rising up?
(a) No singing.
(b) No reading.
(c) No interracial relationships.
(d) No writing.

11. What did Gabriel and Nancy Prosser do as explained in Chapter 10?
(a) Wrote a book about slavery.
(b) Were the first black couple to own their own land.
(c) Planned a failed slave rebellion.
(d) Argued a case before the Supreme Court.

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

13. Who do Reynolds and Kendi claim was the world's first racist?
(a) Wilhelm Winkle.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Gomes Eanes de Zurara.
(d) Aristotle.

14. What religion did Cotton and Mather practice?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Puritanism.
(c) Lutheranism.
(d) Catholicism.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which territory did Thomas Jefferson purchase from the French early in his presidency?

2. Where did Cotton Mather attend college?

3. What did writer John Locke believe about Blacks?

4. Chapter 7 consists of one sentence that says Africans are NOT which of the following?

5. Where did Jefferson move in 1884?

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