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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 6 - 12).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following phrases does Reynolds put forth to the reader that he says his mother would often say?
(a) It is always darkest before the dawn.
(b) Don't throw a stone, then hide your hand.
(c) People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
(d) Trust but verify.

2. Which young Black girl had extraordinary talents as a poet in the 1700s in America?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) Phyllis Wheatley.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

3. Where did Thomas Jefferson build his first plantation?
(a) Charlottesville, Virginia.
(b) Ann Arbor, Michigan.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

4. What does Kendi say he wanted to explore in writing Stamped From The Beginning?
(a) Racist ideas in China.
(b) The source of racist ideas.
(c) Racist ideas in Canada.
(d) Racist ideas in Eastern Europe.

5. What did Gabriel and Nancy Prosser do as explained in Chapter 10?
(a) Were the first black couple to own their own land.
(b) Argued a case before the Supreme Court.
(c) Planned a failed slave rebellion.
(d) Wrote a book about slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which formerly enslaved woman wrote an antislavery book?

2. Which of the following books did Thomas Jefferson write?

3. What did the Great Compromise create?

4. Which territory did Thomas Jefferson purchase from the French early in his presidency?

5. Who is the brutal slave owner who has Tom killed in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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