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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name," who "stole the show" at the founding meeting of the uniting of the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the National Association of Colored Women?
(a) J. Rosamond Johnson.
(b) Ida B. Wells.
(c) Harriet Tubman.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

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

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 local government.
(d) The federal government.

4. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?
(a) Charles Remond.
(b) Isaac Meyers.
(c) Harriet Forten Remond.
(d) Robert Purvis.

5. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)
(a) Nashville.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Jackson.

6. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?
(a) Baby Douglass.
(b) Baby Williams.
(c) Baby Wells.
(d) Baby Anthoney.

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

8. Who was lynched at the opening of the book?
(a) Shawn Morgan.
(b) Thomas Moss.
(c) Stewart Wells.
(d) Derrik Jones.

9. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?
(a) Federick Douglass.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Marcus Garvey.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

11. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?
(a) Frances Willard.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Lady Somerset.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

12. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Birmingham.

13. What happened to the Gross National Product between 1869 and 1899?
(a) It was cut by one fourth.
(b) It was cut in half.
(c) It tripled.
(d) It doubled.

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

15. Who wrote "Voice of the South"?
(a) Maria Strena Markerson.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Dawn South.
(d) Anna Julia Cooper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?

2. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?

3. Who, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?

4. Who wrote the poem "Deliverance"?

5. What exposition in 1893 presented Black women with the opportunity to address the redefining of the criteria of true womanhood?

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