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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through To Choose Again, Freely.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Fairbanks.
(c) Nashville.
(d) New York City.

2. What was the name of the first Black novel published in America? (1861)
(a) "A Story."
(b) "Freedom RIngs."
(c) "Clotel."
(d) "Black."

3. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?
(a) The slave-master of the premises.
(b) Their master.
(c) The federal government.
(d) The local government.

4. Who, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?
(a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

5. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?
(a) "Conditions of the Negro in America."
(b) "Desires of the American Slave."
(c) "A Need for More."
(d) "The Negro Family."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?

2. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?

3. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?

4. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?

5. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?

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