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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Radical Interracialists.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?
(a) The local governing male.
(b) The church.
(c) The local prison authorities.
(d) Another slave holder outside of Virginia.

2. Who founded the UNIA?
(a) Louis Farican.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Marcus Garvey.
(d) Malcolm X.

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

4. How many signatures did the Victoria Earle Mathew's Loyal Union collect in support of the Blair Amendment?
(a) 8,800.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 9,100.
(d) 10,000+.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What was the name of the student that spoke out against the Congressional tongue-lashing a university received for having a book on socialism in it's library?

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

5. 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?

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