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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: "Angela Davis," Chapters 34-37 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the concept of uplift suasion, the responsibility for race relations is placed upon whom, according to the author?
(a) Women.
(b) White Americans.
(c) Male voters.
(d) Black Americans.

2. According to the author in Chapter 7, who became associated to associating "lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand and ... darkness and Blackness and ignorance, on the other" (81)?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Morgan Godwyn.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

3. The author states in Chapter 5 that tobacco exports in the Mid-Atlantic regions increased from 20,000 pounds in 1619 to how many by 1700?
(a) 15 million.
(b) 38 million.
(c) 62 million.
(d) 20 million.

4. Who was the naturalist that adopted the name Buffon?
(a) Thomas Bray.
(b) Georges Louis Leclerc.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Aphra Behn.

5. Who was the Chicago Defender founder who became one of the first Black millionaires?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Robert Abbott.
(c) James Elbert Cutler.
(d) Thomas Dixon.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did Pedro de Las Casas publish History of the Indes?

4. Who was the new executive secretary of the NAACP in 1933?

5. When did the Supreme Court rule in the McCleskey v. Kemp case?

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