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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Thomas Jefferson," Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who made his revelation in a 1680 pamphlet criticizing racist planters for making "those two words, Negro and Slave" synonymous (51)?
(a) Paul Baynes.
(b) John Mather.
(c) Morgan Godwyn.
(d) George Fox.

2. When was Cotton Mather born?
(a) 1701.
(b) 1623.
(c) 1663.
(d) 1659.

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

4. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

5. Who is referred to in Chapter 11 as "That rare segregationist who rejected polygenesis," believing "that all humans descended from Europe's Garden of Eden" (138)?
(a) Hendrik Cesars.
(b) Moses Brown.
(c) Thomas Bray.
(d) Georges Cuvier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What act on March 26, 1790 limited citizenship to "free white persons" of "good character" (121)?

2. Who was the naturalist that adopted the name Buffon?

3. Who brought the First Great Awakening to Virginia?

4. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?

5. What abolitionist Quaker pointed to Black exhibits from his Providence school as proof of equality in the races?

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