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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 Louisiana Territory.
(b) The Glacier Territory.
(c) The Western Territory.
(d) The New England Territory.

2. Which of the following ideas did Jefferson promote in the late 1700s?
(a) The northern states had a responsibility to fight against slavery.
(b) All slaves deserved freedom except for the ones he owned.
(c) Slaves should be sent back to Africa.
(d) Slaves should be freed after the next two decades.

3. What does Kendi confess to the reader about when he began writing Stamped?
(a) He had read all of Abraham Lincoln's writings.
(b) He had not read any of Thomas Jefferson's writings.
(c) He did not want to write about racism.
(d) He had quite a few racist ideas himself.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which other former president died on the same day as Thomas Jefferson?

2. How old was Thomas Jefferson in 1776?

3. What was the book that the world's first racist wrote titled, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

4. Who do Reynolds and Kendi claim was the world's first racist?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe antiracists?

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

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

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

5. What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 allow for?

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

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

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

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

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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