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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the first Europeans to reach the Americas?
(a) The Scandinavians.
(b) The Spanish.
(c) The English.
(d) The German.

2. How many people perished during the Middle Passage?
(a) About 2 million.
(b) About 750,000.
(c) About 1 million.
(d) About 500,000.

3. In the 1800s, the global demand for which product helped fuel the north American slave trade?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Oil.
(c) Wool.
(d) Steel.

4. Which activist claimed that, "There can be no deep disappointment without deep love" (19)?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

5. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, which regions received the largest number of enslaved persons?
(a) North and Central America.
(b) Europe and Asia.
(c) Africa and Australia.
(d) The Caribbean and South America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing occur?

2. During the early colonization of the Americas, which crop was most profitable?

3. According to Tisby, when did Christianity arrive in Africa?

4. Which church leader helped found The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG)?

5. Which white man married Metoaka, also known as Pocahontas?

(see the answer key)

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