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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. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?
(a) White women.
(b) Black men and white women.
(c) Black men.
(d) Black men and women.

2. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?
(a) Henry Spelman.
(b) Scott Maze.
(c) Thomas Slavern.
(d) Frederick Glass.

3. Who was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?
(a) Deacon Marks.
(b) Frederick Salts.
(c) Hugh Davis.
(d) Richard Martin.

4. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?
(a) 1734.
(b) 1687.
(c) 1567.
(d) 1619.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?

2. What was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?

3. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?

4. What did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?

5. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?

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