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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was responsible for the murders in the Charleson church shooting?
(a) Dylann Roof.
(b) Darren Wilson.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Dante Servin.

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

3. When did minstrel shows emerge in the U.S.?
(a) The 1820s.
(b) The 1830s.
(c) The 1850s.
(d) The 1790s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Benjamin Franklin die?

2. When was Sandra Bland found hanged in her jail cell?

3. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?

4. In the Black revolt of September 8, 1791, a force of 100,000 African freedom fighters had killed more than how many enslavers within two months?

5. What church did Increase Mather helm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is polygenism? How did it promote racism?

2. When and where did Nat Turner's Rebellion take place? What were its impacts?

3. Who are the five main figures that are the book's "tour guides" (6)? Why has the author chosen these individuals?

4. How does the author define prejudice?

5. What is Voltaire's significance in racial history?

6. What impact did mistrel shows have on racist perceptions?

7. Why is it important to the author that the reader know this book is not a history of racial progress?

8. What is uplift suasion?

9. Discuss the ironies of the Declaration of Independence.

10. What was dictated in the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

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