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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. What difficulty did Cotton Mather have?

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

3. What did writer John Locke believe about Blacks?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the strategy of uplift suasion?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How do Reynolds and Kendi use humor to emphasize their points and theories? Write an essay explaining 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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