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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Defending Our Name.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What exposition in 1893 presented Black women with the opportunity to address the redefining of the criteria of true womanhood?
(a) The World Colombian Exposition.
(b) The Southern Rights Exposition.
(c) The American Liberal Exposition.
(d) The Black Rights Exposition.

2. Who was committed to Dr. S. Wier Mitchell's Hospital of Orthopedic and Nervous Diseases because of her inability to withstand the stresses of being educated and financially sound and having to care for ailing members of her family?
(a) Jane Addams.
(b) Laura Drens.
(c) Mary Stone.
(d) Martha Biggins.

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

4. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?
(a) "Science of the Negro."
(b) "Adaptations of the Post-Slave."
(c) "Wickedness of the Black."
(d) "Criminal Man."

5. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?
(a) 10.
(b) 17.
(c) 5.
(d) 54.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?

2. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?

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. What was the name of the first Black novel published in America? (1861)

5. Who in February of 1893 was lynched in Paris, Texas under the accusation that he had raped a 5-year-old White girl?

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