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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

2. What kind of book do Reynolds and Kendi tell the reader Stamped is not?

3. What did the Puritans stipulate at the opening of the first U.S. university?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe assimilationists?

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

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

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

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

6. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?

7. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe antiracists?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the phrase the "Talented Tenth" refer to, and how was this concept received by the public? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How do Reynolds and Kendi characterize former President Bill Clinton's crime bill? How did it influence public opinion about the Black community? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What was the Three-Fifths Compromise, and what were the founders' reasons for including it in the Constitutional Convention of 1787? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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