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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. Who held the theory that Blacks descended from a "Different Adam" than Whites?
(a) John Locke.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Marshall Mathers.
(d) Lucilio Vanini.

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

3. Which Spanish ship carrying slaves was hijacked in 1619?
(a) The Santa Maria Domingo.
(b) The Santiago de Caligula.
(c) The Mariachi Marina.
(d) The San Juan Bautista.

4. How old was Thomas Jefferson in 1776?
(a) 40.
(b) 76.
(c) 16.
(d) 33.

5. What did the Curse Theory say about Africans?
(a) That they had accidentally cast a curse on themselves.
(b) That the Salem Witches had cast curses on them.
(c) That they had intentionally cast a curse on themselves.
(d) That they were a cursed people because of God's will.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Great Compromise create?

2. How was the world's first racist's book received by the public?

3. Who do Reynolds and Kendi refer to as The Great Contradictor?

4. Which of the following famous lines did Thomas Jefferson pen in the Declaration of Independence?

5. Who is the brutal slave owner who has Tom killed in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?

2. What was the strategy of uplift suasion?

3. How did early Puritans like Cotton and Mather perpetuate their racist ideas?

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

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

6. What did Cotton Mather try to convince people was the only mission of slavery?

7. What is one of the situations that Reynolds and Kendi view as ironic about Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence?

8. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe the intentions and temperament of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison?

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

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

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