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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. What do Reynolds and Kendi say race has been in American history throughout the ages?
(a) A solvable problem.
(b) An enigma.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) A strange and persistent poson.

2. What war did the Americans and British fight in the late 1700s?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Revolutionary War.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The Hundred Years' War.

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

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

5. Who is the brutal slave owner who has Tom killed in Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) John Robertson.
(b) Henry Finard.
(c) James Cordry.
(d) Simon Legree.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the First Great Awakening happen?

2. Who held the theory that Blacks descended from a "Different Adam" than Whites?

3. What happened with the question of admitting Missouri as a state in the U.S. in the early 1800s?

4. What difficulty did Cotton Mather have?

5. Which other former president died on the same day as Thomas Jefferson?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?

2. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe assimilationists?

3. Who do you think Reynolds and Kendi make a point to readers that Stamped is not a history book in the traditional sense?

4. In Chapters 6 and 7, what word is most often used to describe Africans in racist theories, and why?

5. What is the Curse Theory as Reynolds and Kendi describe it?

6. What is the Climate Theory as described by Reynolds and Kendi?

7. What, in Reynolds' and Kendi's opinions, was one of the worst things Jefferson did as he retired to Monticello?

8. Why was the 1791 slave rebellion in Haiti such a problem for White people in power in the United States?

9. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe the intentions and temperament of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison?

10. What did Cotton Mather try to convince people was the only mission of slavery?

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