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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. Which of the following books did Thomas Jefferson write?

2. What does Kendi confess to the reader about when he began writing Stamped?

3. Which country became the Eastern Hemisphere's symbol of freedom following a slave rebellion there in the late 1700s?

4. When did Thomas Jefferson die?

5. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is one of the situations that Reynolds and Kendi view as ironic about Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence?

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

8. What was the strategy of uplift suasion?

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

10. What was a particularly glaring contradiction in Jefferson's attitudes and writings in 1784?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the Three-Fifths Compromise, and what were the founders' reasons for including it in the Constitutional Convention of 1787? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Reynolds and Kendi repeatedly emphasize Thomas Jefferson's contradictory thoughts and actions regarding slavery and his treatment and impressions of Black people. Write an essay explaining some of the specifics of these contradictions, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What did Cotton Mather believe was the sole mission of slavery, and how did the public at the time react to this view? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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