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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Quest for Woman Suffrage.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom did Anna Julia Cooper state was the "finest woman I have ever known"?
(a) The slave master's wife.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) The slave whom acted as her mother.

3. In 1915, how many state and local branches did the Black Chamber of Commerce have?
(a) 600.
(b) 16.
(c) 250.
(d) 170.

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

5. Who, according to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," was the wealthiest and best educated Black woman of the time?
(a) Mary Church Terrell.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Fannie Barrier Williams.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Lottie Wilson Jackson not want Black women to be compelled to ride in?

3. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?

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

5. Who, in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage," was quoted as saying "divine law makes no distinction between the sexes"?

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