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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Thomas Jefferson go upon his retirement from public life?
(a) Monticello.
(b) Freedmont.
(c) Boston.
(d) Pennsylvania.

2. Who bought some of the first slaves to come to America from Africa?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Marshall Wellins.
(c) Cotton Mather.
(d) Virginia Governor George Yeardley.

3. What war did the Americans and British fight in the late 1700s?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) The Hundred Years' War.
(c) The Revolutionary War.
(d) World War I.

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

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

6. What state was admitted to the Union in 1820 as a free state?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Maine.
(d) Connecticut.

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

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

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

10. 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.

11. 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 much care for religion themselves.
(c) They did not like Puritanism.
(d) They were only interested in slaves to make more money.

12. Where did Jefferson move in 1884?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

13. Which young Black girl had extraordinary talents as a poet in the 1700s in America?
(a) Phyllis Wheatley.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

14. Which influential Native American war leader was killed in 1676?
(a) Standing Bull.
(b) Metacomet.
(c) Chief Cross Guns.
(d) Chief Longhorn.

15. What kind of book do Reynolds and Kendi tell the reader Stamped is not?
(a) A history book.
(b) Memoir.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Propaganda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main female character in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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

3. Which politician's rise came shortly after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

4. When did the First Great Awakening happen?

5. Who spearheaded the First Great Awakening?

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