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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. What abolitionist Quaker pointed to Black exhibits from his Providence school as proof of equality in the races?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Moses Brown.
(d) Hendrik Cesars.

2. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?
(a) Cairo.
(b) Cordoba.
(c) Ceuta.
(d) Manatowak.

3. What fort were the Portuguese beginning building in 1481?
(a) Elmina.
(b) Ceuta.
(c) Alitta.
(d) Atenia.

4. Where did the Black revolt of September 8, 1791 take place?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Virginia.

5. Where was John Woolman from?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) New Hampshire.
(c) Vermont.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what slave did Thomas Jefferson have an affair?

2. Who wrote The Selling of Joseph?

3. When was the modern mechanical cotton gin invented?

4. How much of the nation's wealth is owned by African Americans?

5. Who gave the speech from which the author derived the title Stamped from the Beginning?

(see the answer key)

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