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

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

3. Who is the main female character in Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Reyna.
(b) Eva.
(c) Marsha.
(d) Marion.

4. How was the world's first racist's book received by the public?
(a) It was only sold to schools.
(b) It was a bestseller.
(c) It hardly sold any copies.
(d) It was only sold to churches.

5. Who did the world's first racist write a biography about, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) King Harold.
(b) Hippocrates.
(c) Prince Henry.
(d) Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kendi say is the first step to building an antiracist America?

2. What difficulty did Cotton Mather have?

3. What did the Climate Theory say about Africans?

4. Which of the following rules did slave owners have to help keep slaves from rising up?

5. Which of the following did writer Richard Baxter believe about slavery?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe antiracists?

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

3. What is the Climate Theory as described by Reynolds and Kendi?

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

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

6. What was the strategy of uplift suasion?

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

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

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

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

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