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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. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?
(a) By three.
(b) By two.
(c) By six.
(d) By four.

2. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?
(a) By purchase of thier wives from the slave holder.
(b) By taking authority of women.
(c) By declaring themselves head-of-household.
(d) By petitioning the government.

3. According to the Chapter "Defending Our Name," what city in 1893 exported more cotton than any other city in America?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Charleston.
(d) Birmingham.

4. What did Lottie Wilson Jackson not want Black women to be compelled to ride in?
(a) Luggage cars.
(b) Smoking cars.
(c) "Colored cars."
(d) Third Class.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?

3. What nation's exhibit did Frederick Douglass preside over at the exposition of 1893?

4. How many Black women were registered to vote in New York, where their vote successfully brought about the delegation of Gertrude Curtis and Laura Fisher to the Republican Convention?

5. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?

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