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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kendi, what do antiracists believe?

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

3. When did Cotton Mather die?

4. Which Spanish ship carrying slaves was hijacked in 1619?

5. Which young Black girl had extraordinary talents as a poet in the 1700s in America?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do Reynolds and Kendi suggest, somewhat facetiously, that Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?

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

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

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

7. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe antiracists?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, affect the public view of slavery at the time of its publication? How did Blacks in general view the book? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What kind of criticism and negative consequences did Angela Davis experience from people at the highest level of political power as a result of her activism? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What does the phrase the "Talented Tenth" refer to, and how was this concept received by the public? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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