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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, Beverly Daniel Tatum defines racism as a combination of "prejudice" and another factor. What is the second factor?
(a) Power.
(b) Planning.
(c) Ethnicity.
(d) Bigotry.

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

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

4. What was the Haitian Revolution?
(a) A rebellion of enslaved people against their owners.
(b) A rebellion of indentured servants against their employers.
(c) A rebellion of the English against the French.
(d) A rebellion of native Haitians against the English.

5. What was a side effect of the Fugitive Slave Act?
(a) Black people could be captured and enslaved, even in free states.
(b) Abolitionist groups received additional funding.
(c) Slave-oweners lost some of their authority over enslaved people.
(d) Black people were prohibited from entering free states.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first black U.S. senator?

2. According to Tisby, which of the following statements about Thomas Jefferson is NOT true?

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

4. What was the impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

5. According to Tisby, what is required to achieve "reconciliation" (15)?

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