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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?
(a) Mary Church Terrell.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?

2. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?

3. In 1913, what group organized a march in Washington, D.C. for the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration?

4. According to Virginia law, how many additional years of servitude did a servant woman have to serve if she bore the child of her master?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the chapter "Defending Our Name" state that Ida B. Wells should have been pleased?

2. What happened as a result of Ida B. Wellss' British tour?

3. Why was the Black family under siege between 1890 and 1910?

4. After emancipation, what did both Black men and women escape from? (Not in regard to slavery itself.)

5. Why did many of the Baptist clergy state that the only place for women was in the church singing?

6. Why did the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage" state that women's suffrage was important?

7. What were the differences between the Black and White women's organizations?

8. What incident moved W.E.B. Du Bois to praise Black women for their courage?

9. What opinion did "The Woman's Era" (1894) offer regarding the traditional roles of women?

10. At a women's rights meeting in Akron, Ohio, what was Sojourner Truth's message?

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