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

2. What do assimilationists think about combatting racism?
(a) They think Black people need to read more White authors.
(b) They think Black people need to transform themselves to become more like White people.
(c) The need to change people's minds through religion.
(d) They need to transform people's views of racism through pop culture.

3. What new technology did members of the AASS rely on to spread abolitionist messages in 1835?
(a) The typewriter.
(b) The printing press.
(c) The telephone.
(d) The telegram.

4. Who do Reynolds and Kendi refer to as The Great Contradictor?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Marshall Mathers.

5. What did the Three-Fifths Compromise state?
(a) That three-fifths of the states should be slave states.
(b) That people should only get to vote in three-fifths of the toal number of elections.
(c) That African Americans should count as three-fifths of a white person.
(d) That three-fifths of the states should be free states.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the head of the American Colonization Society in the early 1800s?

2. What book did Cotton Mather write?

3. What period of time did uplift suasion seem to be working as intended in?

4. What does Kendi say he wanted to explore in writing Stamped From The Beginning?

5. What state was admitted to the Union in 1820 as a free state?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe antiracists?

5. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?

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

7. Why was the 1791 slave rebellion in Haiti such a problem for White people in power in the United States?

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

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

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

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