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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: "W. E. B. Du Bois," Chapters 21-23.

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) 10 times more likely.
(b) 14 times more likely.
(c) 2 times more likely.
(d) 21 times more likely.

2. When did the Salem witch trials take place?
(a) 1565-1600.
(b) 1645-1647.
(c) 1499-1501.
(d) 1692-1693.

3. Who organized the Society for the Propagation of the Gosphel in Foreign Parts in 1701?
(a) Thomas Bray.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) George Fox.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

4. What had the population of Boston grown to by the time of John Adams's death?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 60,000.
(d) 40,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Through the Dark Continent in 1878?

2. Who was impeached on the day after W. E. B. Du Bois was born?

3. Who issued his Reconstruction proclamations on May 29, 1865, deflating the hopes of civil rights activists?

4. Where did Nat Turner's slave rebellion take place?

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

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