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

2. What did writer John Locke believe about Blacks?
(a) They had better physical health than Whites.
(b) They were more violent than Whites.
(c) They had less agile and developed minds than Whites.
(d) They were better musicians than whites.

3. What happened with the question of admitting Missouri as a state in the U.S. in the early 1800s?
(a) Missouri was admitted to the South as a slave state in the early 1800s.
(b) Missouri was admitted to the U.S. as a slave state in the North, or Union.
(c) Missouri was not admitted to the U.S. as a state at all in the early 1800s.
(d) Missouri was admitted to the South as a free state in the early 1800s.

4. How did the world's first racist depict Africans in his book, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) As people who were physically well-suited for work.
(b) As lazy people who needed to be instilled with a better work ethic.
(c) As lost souls who could be rehabilitated.
(d) As savages that needed training.

5. What was the book that the world's first racist wrote titled, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) Marshall Your Courage.
(b) The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea.
(c) Prince Henry's Tome.
(d) Prince Harold's Praise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do assimilationists think about combatting racism?

2. Where did Thomas Jefferson build his first plantation?

3. Which scientist in Chapter 12, the father of American anthropology, measured skulls as an indicator of intelligence?

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

5. What difficulty did Cotton Mather have?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were some of the things that White privileges allowed?

3. How did early Puritans like Cotton and Mather perpetuate their racist ideas?

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

5. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?

6. How did both planters and missionaries in early America think about slavery?

7. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe assimilationists?

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

9. What is one reason that Frederick Douglass went to Great Britain to spread his antislavery message?

10. What new technology did Garrison's new group, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) rely on to distribute information?

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