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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Tisby, which of the following statements about Thomas Jefferson is NOT true?
(a) He drafted the Declaration of Independence.
(b) He was a slave-owner.
(c) He opposed racial equality.
(d) He was an abolitionist.

2. What was the term used for the process of preparing slaves for their new life of bondage?
(a) Seasoning.
(b) Hazing.
(c) Training.
(d) Indoctrination.

3. What year did the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing occur?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1961.

4. What was the name of the Black writer who published an autobiography in 1861, detailing her experiences as a enslaved girl?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Soujourner Truth.
(c) Hannah Crafts.
(d) Harriet Jacobs.

5. How many people perished during the Middle Passage?
(a) About 500,000.
(b) About 2 million.
(c) About 1 million.
(d) About 750,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Constitutional Convention take place?

2. According to Tisby, what is required to achieve "reconciliation" (15)?

3. What historical period coincided with the decline of slavery in Britain?

4. Which English philosopher's work influenced the Declaration of Independence?

5. Which group received additional rights after the Revolutionary War?

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