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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Chapters 1 - 5).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do assimilationists think about combatting racism?
(a) They need to transform people's views of racism through pop culture.
(b) The need to change people's minds through religion.
(c) They think Black people need to transform themselves to become more like White people.
(d) They think Black people need to read more White authors.

2. What did the Curse Theory say about Africans?
(a) That the Salem Witches had cast curses on them.
(b) That they were a cursed people because of God's will.
(c) That they had accidentally cast a curse on themselves.
(d) That they had intentionally cast a curse on themselves.

3. Why were White Privileges created?
(a) To help commerce grow in the new world.
(b) To help create the stock market.
(c) To help poor Whites and rich Whites have a more equal level of opportunity.
(d) To keep poor Whites and Blacks from uniting and turning against the Whites in power.

4. Which Spanish ship carrying slaves was hijacked in 1619?
(a) The Santa Maria Domingo.
(b) The San Juan Bautista.
(c) The Santiago de Caligula.
(d) The Mariachi Marina.

5. What does Kendi say is the first step to building an antiracist America?
(a) Understanding how Harvard University was founded.
(b) Reading the writings of Aristotle.
(c) Acknowledging America's racist past.
(d) Reading the writings of Von Nuremburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of book do Reynolds and Kendi tell the reader Stamped is not?

2. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?

3. What difficulty did Cotton Mather have?

4. Who bought some of the first slaves to come to America from Africa?

5. What does Kendi say he wanted to explore in writing Stamped From The Beginning?

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