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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1865.

2. When was the modern mechanical cotton gin invented?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1718.
(d) 1794.

3. What church did Increase Mather helm?
(a) The North Church of Boston.
(b) The Episcopalian Church of Boston.
(c) The South Church of Boston.
(d) The Quaker Church of Boston.

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

5. Where did Nat Turner's slave rebellion take place?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Haiti.

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

7. Why did Richard Mather come to America?
(a) To evade the French authorities.
(b) To attend his arranged marriage.
(c) Religious persecution.
(d) To seek gold.

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

9. Who gave the speech from which the author derived the title Stamped from the Beginning?
(a) Darren Wilson.
(b) George Zimmerman.
(c) Dante Servin.
(d) Jefferson Davis.

10. When did John Locke move to London to become the personal physician of Lord Cooper?
(a) 1667.
(b) 1702.
(c) 1689.
(d) 1599.

11. 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) 62 million.
(c) 20 million.
(d) 38 million.

12. When did Jean Bodin theorize that "intimate relations between the men and beasts ... still give birth to monsters in Africa" (31)?
(a) 1499.
(b) 1576.
(c) 1562.
(d) 1598.

13. When was the American Anti-Slavery Society formed?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1862.

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

15. Who wrote The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Paul Baynes.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Richard Hakluyt.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the concept of uplift suasion, the responsibility for race relations is placed upon whom, according to the author?

2. What did George Best observe about the Inuit people of northeastern Canada on his voyage in 1577?

3. Who brought the First Great Awakening to Virginia?

4. 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)?

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

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