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

2. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?
(a) I am not a racist, but.
(b) I have White friends.
(c) I have Black friends.
(d) I am the least racist person you know.

3. Where did Thomas Jefferson build his first plantation?
(a) Ann Arbor, Michigan.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(d) Charlottesville, Virginia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following books did Thomas Jefferson write?

2. Why did plantation owners show little interest in religiously converting slaves?

3. Which formerly enslaved woman wrote an antislavery book?

4. Who bought some of the first slaves to come to America from Africa?

5. Which of the following ideas did Jefferson promote in the late 1700s?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe assimilationists?

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

5. How did both planters and missionaries in early America think about slavery?

6. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?

7. Who do you think Reynolds and Kendi make a point to readers that Stamped is not a history book in the traditional sense?

8. What were some of the things that White privileges allowed?

9. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe antiracists?

10. What new technology did Garrison's new group, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) rely on to distribute information?

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