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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When did Cotton Mather die?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1787.
(c) 1750.
(d) 1728.

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

6. What happened with the question of admitting Missouri as a state in the U.S. in the early 1800s?
(a) Missouri was admitted to the U.S. as a slave state in the North, or Union.
(b) Missouri was not admitted to the U.S. as a state at all in the early 1800s.
(c) Missouri was admitted to the South as a free state in the early 1800s.
(d) Missouri was admitted to the South as a slave state in the early 1800s.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Which of the following did writer Richard Baxter believe about slavery?
(a) It was the precursor to Capitalism.
(b) It was helpful to slaves.
(c) It was God's will.
(d) It was a Marxist idea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What club did Benjamin Franklin begin in 1743?

2. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?

3. What was the first university to be opened in the U.S.?

4. What did the Climate Theory say about Africans?

5. What group was William Lloyd Garrison instrumental in creating in the end of Chapter 11?

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