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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which state was Senator John C. Calhoun from?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) North Carolina.
2. Which of the following phrases does Reynolds put forth to the reader that he says his mother would often say?
(a) It is always darkest before the dawn.
(b) People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
(c) Don't throw a stone, then hide your hand.
(d) Trust but verify.
3. What did the Puritans stipulate at the opening of the first U.S. university?
(a) Greek and Latin texts could not be disputed.
(b) Women were allowed to attend, but only in small numbers.
(c) Blacks were allowed to attend as long as they worked at the university, too.
(d) All the professors had to be priests.
4. Which slave did Thomas Jefferson have children with?
(a) Joan Hemings.
(b) Sally Hemings.
(c) Marion Fare.
(d) Micheline Mayren.
5. What do assimilationists think about combatting racism?
(a) They need to transform people's views of racism through pop culture.
(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) The need to change people's minds through religion.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the Great Compromise create?
2. What group was William Lloyd Garrison instrumental in creating in the end of Chapter 11?
3. What does Kendi confess to the reader about when he began writing Stamped?
4. What was the first university to be opened in the U.S.?
5. What state was admitted to the Union in 1820 as a free state?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?
2. What is the Climate Theory as described by Reynolds and Kendi?
3. How did early Puritans like Cotton and Mather perpetuate their racist ideas?
4. What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 allow for?
5. What do Reynolds and Kendi suggest, somewhat facetiously, that Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?
6. Who did Thomas Jefferson and other slaveholders blame for the slave rebellions cropping up in America in the late 1700s?
7. Why do Reynolds and Kendi describe Gomes Eanes de Zurara as the world's first racist?
8. Who do you think Reynolds and Kendi make a point to readers that Stamped is not a history book in the traditional sense?
9. What were Gabriel and Nancy Prosser trying to do in the year 1800?
10. What was a particularly glaring contradiction in Jefferson's attitudes and writings in 1784?
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