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

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

3. What do Reynolds and Kendi say race has been in American history throughout the ages?
(a) A strange and persistent poson.
(b) A solvable problem.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) An enigma.

4. Chapter 7 consists of one sentence that says Africans are NOT which of the following?
(a) Inspirations.
(b) Examples.
(c) Humans.
(d) Savages.

5. What book did Cotton Mather write?
(a) On the Witchcraftery Next Door.
(b) How to Tell a Witch From a Woman.
(c) Memorable Providence, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions.
(d) Witch Handbook.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?

2. What did the Great Compromise create?

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

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

5. When did Thomas Jefferson die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What were some of the things that White privileges allowed?

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

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

10. What was the strategy of uplift suasion?

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