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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prelude to a Movement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Mary Church Terrell when she learned of the lynching of the grocer?
(a) 29.
(b) 16.
(c) 19.
(d) 26.

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

3. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Frances Ellen Harper.
(c) Mattie Griffith.
(d) Donna Mary Banks.

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

5. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?
(a) A saloon.
(b) A barber shop.
(c) A grocery.
(d) A wheat farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the death of both of Ida B. Wells' parents?

2. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)

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

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

5. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?

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