This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. Who do the authors identify as “the world’s first racist”?

A) Cotton Mather

B) Gomes Eanes de Zurara

C) Leo Africanus

D) John Pory

2. In what year were the first enslaved Africans brought to what would become the United States?

A) 1492

B) 1553

C) 1619

D) 1689

3. According to the authors, why did Virginia lawmakers pass white supremacist laws in the wake of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676?

A) because they believed Black people were the cursed offspring of Ham

B) to prevent Black people and Indigenous people from uniting against white people

C) to prevent Black and white workers from uniting against the wealthy

D) because the colonies were already fully reliant on slave labor

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