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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 had accidentally cast a curse on themselves.
(b) That they were a cursed people because of God's will.
(c) That the Salem Witches had cast curses on them.
(d) That they had intentionally cast a curse on themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Which of the following famous lines did Thomas Jefferson pen in the Declaration of Independence?
(a) This day will live in infamy.
(b) The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
(c) All men are created equal.
(d) Four score and seven years ago.

9. Which other former president died on the same day as Thomas Jefferson?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) John Adams.
(d) George Washington.

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

11. 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.

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

13. Which formerly enslaved woman wrote an antislavery book?
(a) Joan Bent.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Micheline Maynor.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

14. What group was William Lloyd Garrison instrumental in creating in the end of Chapter 11?
(a) The NAACP.
(b) The SNCC.
(c) The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS).
(d) The PABT.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Reynolds and Kendi say race has been in American history throughout the ages?

2. What club did Benjamin Franklin begin in 1743?

3. Who was the head of the American Colonization Society in the early 1800s?

4. When did the First Great Awakening happen?

5. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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