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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. What period of time did uplift suasion seem to be working as intended in?
(a) The 1790s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1850s.

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

3. What war did the Americans and British fight in the late 1700s?
(a) The Revolutionary War.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The Hundred Years' War.

4. What religion did Cotton and Mather practice?
(a) Lutheranism.
(b) Puritanism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Protestantism.

5. What difficulty did Cotton Mather have?
(a) A stutter.
(b) A disfigured face.
(c) A limp.
(d) Blindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country became the Eastern Hemisphere's symbol of freedom following a slave rebellion there in the late 1700s?

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

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

4. Chapter 7 consists of one sentence that says Africans are NOT which of the following?

5. What was the first university to be opened in the U.S.?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe assimilationists?

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