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

2. What was the title of the pamphlet David Walker wrote?
(a) A Rumination on Benefits.
(b) An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.
(c) A History of Slavery in the United States.
(d) A Fine Example of Friendship.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened with the question of admitting Missouri as a state in the U.S. in the early 1800s?

2. Where did Thomas Jefferson go upon his retirement from public life?

3. When did Thomas Jefferson die?

4. Why were White Privileges created?

5. What did the Great Compromise create?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?

2. What, in Reynolds' and Kendi's opinions, was one of the worst things Jefferson did as he retired to Monticello?

3. What is one reason that Frederick Douglass went to Great Britain to spread his antislavery message?

4. In Chapters 6 and 7, what word is most often used to describe Africans in racist theories, and why?

5. What were Gabriel and Nancy Prosser trying to do in the year 1800?

6. What was a particularly glaring contradiction in Jefferson's attitudes and writings in 1784?

7. What is the Curse Theory as Reynolds and Kendi describe it?

8. Who did Thomas Jefferson and other slaveholders blame for the slave rebellions cropping up in America in the late 1700s?

9. Why do Reynolds and Kendi describe Gomes Eanes de Zurara as the world's first racist?

10. What do Reynolds and Kendi suggest, somewhat facetiously, that Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?

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