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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Radical Interracialists.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, by order of the House of Burgesses, were masters of slaves able to do to their servants?
(a) Whip them.
(b) Hang them.
(c) Have intercourse with them.
(d) Starve them.

2. How many Black branches did the YWCA have in the South in 1906?
(a) 23.
(b) 16.
(c) 5.
(d) 0.

3. What was the name of the student that spoke out against the Congressional tongue-lashing a university received for having a book on socialism in it's library?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Countee Cullen.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

4. What, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?
(a) Their ability to work.
(b) Moral integrity.
(c) Self-love.
(d) Complacency.

5. What happened to the Gross National Product between 1869 and 1899?
(a) It doubled.
(b) It was cut in half.
(c) It was cut by one fourth.
(d) It tripled.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?

2. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name," who "stole the show" at the founding meeting of the uniting of the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the National Association of Colored Women?

3. According to Virginia law, how many additional years of servitude did a servant woman have to serve if she bore the child of her master?

4. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name" what did Black women have to confront and redefine?

5. Who was the leading suffragist of the Tuskegee Woman's Club (as denoted in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage")?

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