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Quiz for Picturing the Past: Mulatto Painting

Picturing the Past: Mulatto Painting

  1. Question

    Which of these factors helps explain the growing mixed-race population of the Spanish Americas?

    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.

    Correct. The answer is d. With very few European women available, European men often turned to indigenous or African women for sexual partners.
    Incorrect. The answer is d. With very few European women available, European men often turned to indigenous or African women for sexual partners.
  2. Question

    Which of these trends is reflected in the painting?

    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.

    Correct. The answer is d. Unlike British North America where masters tended to leave their mixed-race progeny in slavery, masters in the Spanish Americas tended to acknowledge and free their mixed-race children, offering them support and advantages as they grew up.
    Incorrect. The answer is d. Unlike British North America where masters tended to leave their mixed-race progeny in slavery, masters in the Spanish Americas tended to acknowledge and free their mixed-race children, offering them support and advantages as they grew up.