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WorksheetsStamped Comprehension Test Review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Who are the authors of Stamped?
Jason Reynolds and Thomas Jefferson
Ibram X. Kendi and Gomes Eanes de Zurara
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Jason Reynolds and Leo Africanus
Who is considered the world's first racist in chapter 1 of Stamped?
Prince Henry of Portugal
Gomes Eanes de Zurara
King John of Portugal
Leo Africanus
Climate Theory states that Africans were made inferior because of the hotter temperatures in Africa.
True
False
Curse Theory states that Africans were cursed in the Bible because of Noah's son's (Ham) sinful actions on the ark.
True
False
Who were the two Puritans that used Aristotle's beliefs in human hierarchy to prove that Africans were inferior?
John Cotton and Richard Mather
Prince John and King Henry
Gomes Eanes de Zurara and Leo Africanus
William Perkins and George Best
Who is known for his role in the Salem Witch Trials and the racist codes that were developed because of them?
John Cotton
Richard Mather
Cotton Mather
Metacomet
Whose poetry had "proof" in it that Black people were made into savages because of slavery?
Benjamin Rush
Phillis Wheatley
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence?
Richard Mather
Cotton Mather
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
The Three-Fifths Compromise stated that every five slaves equaled three humans.
True
False
This book is entitled Stamped because....
Racism is "stamped" into the Constitution of the United States with the Three-Fifths Compromise.
The authors want to leave a "stamp" on their readers in terms of learning about racism.
Africans were "stamped" by their slave owners upon arrival to the United States.
"Stamped" is slang for slavery.
The strategy called "Uplift Suasion" was assimilationist because it basically stated that if Black people behaved "admirably" they could prove all the stereotypes about them wrong.
True
False
According to Reynolds, Thomas Jefferson's middle names was....
Edward
Contradiction
Hypocrite
Racist
Thomas Jefferson purchased this land from the French and intended it to be used to teach Black people how to live before sending them back to Africa.
Virginia
The Louisiana Territory
Maryland
Massachusetts
Thomas Jefferson died surrounded by...
The entire U.S. Congress
His wife and family
The slaves he still owned
His entire community
This abolitionist (sometimes assimilationist) started the newspaper called the Liberator.
William Lloyd Garrison
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Robert Finley
Which anti-slavery text was MOST influential in America in telling the story of what life was like for a slave?
The Fugitive Chronicles
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who was known as the "Great Emancipator"?
Fredrick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abraham Lincoln
William Lloyd Garrison
After Abraham Lincoln became President of the United States, the South seceded from the Union, created the Confederacy, and the Civil War began.
True
False
After Lincoln's assassination, the new President, Andrew Johnson, created these new social codes that legalized segregation by race.
Jim Crow Laws
Johnson Laws
Jefferson Laws
KKK laws
This important historical figure was known as the "king of uplift suasion" and believed in the "talented tenth".
(they later changed their beliefs)
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
Frederick Douglass
This man became a symbol of success for Blacks through boxing.
James J. Jeffries
Booker T. Washington
Tommy Burns
Jack Johnson
Because the NAACP was an assimilationist organization run by mostly fair skinned Blacks, this important historical figure, a true anti-racist from the start, started the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association).
Marcus Garvey
Oswald Garrison Villard
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
This young man's brutal death "lit a fire under the civil rights movement" led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Emmett Till
Jack Johnson
Strom Thurmond
Jomo Kenyatta
This group created a 10 point platform for Black equality in the chapter Black Power.
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)
Black Student Union (BSU)
Black Panther Party for Self Defense
In the chapter Murder Was the Case, Reynolds says that politicians used this to "demean Black people in every speech, while also praising white people," without actually saying "Black people" or "White people"?
Language Symbolism
The Southern Strategy
The Northern Strategy
Assimilationist Vocabulary
In the chapter What War on Drugs?, what TV show or movie portrayed the perfect black family and helped to polarize America even more according to Reynolds.
Birth of a Nation
Roots
The Cosby Show
Rocky
In the chapter The Soundtrack of Sorrow and Subversion, what type of music became popular and "was driving change and empowerment" according to Reynolds?
Hip Hop music
R&B music
Grunge Music
Gangsta Rap music
In 1995 the "biggest political mobilization in Black American history took place." It was called...
The Million Man March
The Million Woman March
The March on Washington
The War on Drugs
In the chapter A Bill Too Many, which piece of legislation took effect in 2003 that Reynold's states," put the blame on Black children. And Black teachers. And public schools. Not on racist policies".
Educational Responsibility Act
The War on Drugs
No Child Left Behind Act
Affirmative Action
In the chapter A Miracle and Still a Maybe, Angela Davis "cast a vote for a major political party for the first time in her voting life." Which candidate did she vote for that became the 44th President of the United States?
Barack Obama
Richard Nixon
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Out of these five events from the first half of Stamped, which event happened 1st?
Gomes Eanes de Zurara wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
Southern slave states seceded from the US and the Civil War began
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
Salem Witch Trials occurred
Thomas Jefferson became President of the US
Out of these five events from the first half of Stamped, which event happened 2nd?
Gomes Eanes de Zurara wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
Southern slave states seceded from the US and the Civil War began
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
Salem Witch Trials occurred
Thomas Jefferson became President of the US
Out of these five events from the first half of Stamped, which event happened 3rd?
Gomes Eanes de Zurara wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
Southern slave states seceded from the US and the Civil War began
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
Salem Witch Trials occurred
Thomas Jefferson became President of the US
Out of these five events from the first half of Stamped, which event happened 4th?
Gomes Eanes de Zurara wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
Southern slave states seceded from the US and the Civil War began
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
Salem Witch Trials occurred
Thomas Jefferson became President of the US
Out of these five events from the first half of Stamped, which event happened 5th?
Gomes Eanes de Zurara wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
Southern slave states seceded from the US and the Civil War began
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
Salem Witch Trials occurred
Thomas Jefferson became President of the US
Out of these five events (events 6-10) from the second half of Stamped, which event happened 6th?
The Civil War ended. Lincoln said blacks should have the right to vote and then was assassinated
Malcolm X was assassinated
At the March on Washington, MLK Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Barack Obama elected President
The U.S. Supreme Court decided segregated schools were unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board of Education
Out of these five events (events 6-10) from the second half of Stamped, which event happened 7th?
The Civil War ended. Lincoln said blacks should have the right to vote and then was assassinated
Malcolm X was assassinated
At the March on Washington, MLK Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Barack Obama elected President
The U.S. Supreme Court decided segregated schools were unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board of Education
Out of these five events (events 6-10) from the second half of Stamped, which event happened 8th?
The Civil War ended. Lincoln said blacks should have the right to vote and then was assassinated
Malcolm X was assassinated
At the March on Washington, MLK Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Barack Obama elected President
The U.S. Supreme Court decided segregated schools were unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board of Education
Out of these five events (events 6-10) from the second half of Stamped, which event happened 9th?
The Civil War ended. Lincoln said blacks should have the right to vote and then was assassinated
Malcolm X was assassinated
At the March on Washington, MLK Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Barack Obama elected President
The U.S. Supreme Court decided segregated schools were unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board of Education
Out of these five events (events 6-10) from the second half of Stamped, which event happened 10th?
The Civil War ended. Lincoln said blacks should have the right to vote and then was assassinated
Malcolm X was assassinated
At the March on Washington, MLK Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Barack Obama elected President
The U.S. Supreme Court decided segregated schools were unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board of Education
Who is this man?
Gomes de Zurara
Aristotle
William Lloyd Garrison
Andrew Johnson
Who is this man?
Thomas Jefferson
William Lloyd Garrison
Richard Nixon
Abraham Lincoln
Who is this woman?
Angela Davis
Sojourner Truth
Phillis Wheatley
Queen Latifah
Who is this man?
Robert Finley
William Lloyd Garrison
Nathaniel Bacon
Thomas Jefferson
Who is this woman?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henrietta Lincoln
Sally Hemings
Sojourner Truth
Who is this man?
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Langston Hughes
Malcolm X
Who is this man?
W.E.B. DuBois
Jack Johnson
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
Who is this man?
Malcolm X
Jack Johnson
W.E.B. DuBois
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is this man?
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Who is this woman?
Angela Davis
Michelle Obama
Audre Lorde
Alice Walker
