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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Phillis Wheatley publish her first poem?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1767.
(c) 1642.
(d) 1745.

2. How much of the nation's wealth is owned by African Americans?
(a) 4.9%.
(b) 9.2%.
(c) 7.5%.
(d) 2.7%.

3. What abolitionist claimed in a paper related on July 14, 1797 that Blackness was a result of a disease such as leprosy?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Benjamin Rush.
(d) Hendrik Cesars.

4. What German author wrote History of the Art of Antiquity in 1764?
(a) Aphra Behn.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Thomas Bray.
(d) Johann Joachim Winkelmann.

5. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?
(a) 1521.
(b) 1502.
(c) 1496.
(d) 1398.

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

7. When did Freddie Gray die while in police custody?
(a) April 12, 2015.
(b) March 15, 2011.
(c) March 26, 2013.
(d) June 15, 2014.

8. Who was the Quaker founder and editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation?
(a) Thomas Bray.
(b) Frances Maria Lloyd.
(c) Benjamin Lundy.
(d) Hendrik Cesars.

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

10. 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) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Moses Brown.
(c) Thomas Bray.
(d) Hendrik Cesars.

11. Who was William Lloyd Garrison's mother?
(a) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(b) Sally Hemings.
(c) Anna Maria Garrison.
(d) Frances Maria Lloyd.

12. When did Benjamin Franklin die?
(a) April 11, 1803.
(b) December 24, 1860.
(c) April 17, 1790.
(d) August 17, 1757.

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

14. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?
(a) Paul Baynes.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) Aphra Behn.
(d) George Fox.

15. What was the name of Peter Jefferson's tobacco plantation?
(a) Land's End.
(b) Grandwell.
(c) Shadwell.
(d) Riverview.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?

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

4. Who wrote Two Lectures on the Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races in 1845?

5. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?

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