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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. Which of the following famous lines did Thomas Jefferson pen in the Declaration of Independence?
(a) Four score and seven years ago.
(b) This day will live in infamy.
(c) The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
(d) All men are created equal.
2. Where did Frederick Douglass travel to spread his antislavery message?
(a) Italy.
(b) Spain.
(c) Germany.
(d) Britain.
3. Which of the following did writer Richard Baxter believe about slavery?
(a) It was the precursor to Capitalism.
(b) It was helpful to slaves.
(c) It was God's will.
(d) It was a Marxist idea.
4. How old was Thomas Jefferson in 1776?
(a) 40.
(b) 16.
(c) 33.
(d) 76.
5. What do assimilationists think about combatting racism?
(a) They need to transform people's views of racism through pop culture.
(b) They think Black people need to transform themselves to become more like White people.
(c) They think Black people need to read more White authors.
(d) The need to change people's minds through religion.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which slave did Thomas Jefferson have children with?
2. Who do Reynolds and Kendi claim was the world's first racist?
3. What is the main idea behind uplift suasion?
4. Which of the following ideas did Jefferson promote in the late 1700s?
5. What did the Puritans stipulate at the opening of the first U.S. university?
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 is one of the situations that Reynolds and Kendi view as ironic about Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence?
3. What were Gabriel and Nancy Prosser trying to do in the year 1800?
4. How did both planters and missionaries in early America think about slavery?
5. What is the Climate Theory as described by Reynolds and Kendi?
6. What new technology did Garrison's new group, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) rely on to distribute information?
7. What did Cotton Mather try to convince people was the only mission of slavery?
8. What is the Curse Theory as Reynolds and Kendi describe it?
9. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe the intentions and temperament of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison?
10. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?
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