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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: "Cotton Mather," Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What theory did Aristotle develop to justify Greek superiority?
(a) Ascension theory.
(b) Curse theory.
(c) Naturalization theory.
(d) Climate theory.

3. When did Virginia rule that Christian baptism does not alter "the condition of a person to his bondage" (49)?
(a) 1698.
(b) 1640.
(c) 1667.
(d) 1702.

4. What name was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given when he was released from slavery?
(a) George Fox.
(b) Johannes Leo.
(c) Morgan Godwyn.
(d) Paul Baynes.

5. Who or what killed the Germantown Petition Against Slavery?
(a) Slave-holding Jews.
(b) A Presidential order.
(c) Slave-holding Quakers.
(d) An African slave uprising.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Charles II restore the English throne?

2. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?

3. Who made his revelation in a 1680 pamphlet criticizing racist planters for making "those two words, Negro and Slave" synonymous (51)?

4. When did John Locke move to London to become the personal physician of Lord Cooper?

5. Who is the off-duty detective that shot Rekia Boyd?

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