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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which politician's rise came shortly after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Woodrow Wilson.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

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

3. Which of the following phrases does Reynolds put forth to the reader that he says his mother would often say?
(a) People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
(b) Don't throw a stone, then hide your hand.
(c) It is always darkest before the dawn.
(d) Trust but verify.

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

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

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

7. Which territory did Thomas Jefferson purchase from the French early in his presidency?
(a) The New England Territory.
(b) The Louisiana Territory.
(c) The Glacier Territory.
(d) The Western Territory.

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

9. 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.

10. According to Kendi, what do antiracists believe?
(a) Racism is the problem in need of changing, not Black people.
(b) Racism can be combated by reading certain types of literature.
(c) Racism is the problem of politicians only.
(d) All racism needs to be rooted out in childhood.

11. Which scientist in Chapter 12, the father of American anthropology, measured skulls as an indicator of intelligence?
(a) Jefferson Morton.
(b) Michael Morton.
(c) Samuel Morton.
(d) Marshall Morton.

12. 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 less agile and developed minds than Whites.
(d) They had better physical health than Whites.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main idea behind uplift suasion?

2. What club did Benjamin Franklin begin in 1743?

3. When did the First Great Awakening happen?

4. Which state was Senator John C. Calhoun from?

5. What was the title of the pamphlet David Walker wrote?

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