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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 did the Great Compromise create?

2. Which scientist in Chapter 12, the father of American anthropology, measured skulls as an indicator of intelligence?

3. What book did Cotton Mather write?

4. Where did Cotton Mather attend college?

5. When did Thomas Jefferson die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was a particularly glaring contradiction in Jefferson's attitudes and writings in 1784?

2. In Chapters 6 and 7, what word is most often used to describe Africans in racist theories, and why?

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

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

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

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

7. What was the strategy of uplift suasion?

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

9. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the different approaches W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington took to writing and advocating for greater equality of Blacks? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How would you explain the core of the so-called "Southern Strategy" that Richard Nixon used in his political campaign to win the presidency in the late 1960s? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What are some of Reynold's and Kendi's opinions on former U.S. President Barack Obama's greatest strengths, especially as they relate to advancing racial equality? What are some of the authors' opinions on Obama's significant weaknesses in this regard? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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