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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: "Cotton Mather," Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times more likely were young Black males to be killed by police than their White counterparts between 2010 and 2012?
(a) 2 times more likely.
(b) 10 times more likely.
(c) 21 times more likely.
(d) 14 times more likely.

2. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?
(a) 40%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 30%.

3. When did Pedro de Las Casas publish History of the Indes?
(a) 1590.
(b) 1523.
(c) 1561.
(d) 1570.

4. When did Freddie Gray die while in police custody?
(a) June 15, 2014.
(b) March 15, 2011.
(c) April 12, 2015.
(d) March 26, 2013.

5. Who is the off-duty detective that shot Rekia Boyd?
(a) Dylann Roof.
(b) Dante Servin.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Darren Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?

2. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?

3. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?

4. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?

5. Why did Richard Mather come to America?

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