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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What riot inspired the sonnet that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge placed into "The Congressional Record"?
(a) The Chicago riot.
(b) The Virginia riot.
(c) The New York riot.
(d) The Charleston riot.

2. Who wrote the poem "Deliverance"?
(a) Mary Church.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Milly Green.
(d) Francis Ellen Harper.

3. Who, according to W.E.B. Du Bois, could you not bribe?
(a) Black women.
(b) White people.
(c) Black people.
(d) White women.

4. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?
(a) Poisoning them.
(b) Burning fields.
(c) Seducing them.
(d) Escaping them.

5. According to an article in "The Independent," as referenced by the text in the chapter "Defending Our Name," what did White women prefer to happen to "keep their husbands straight"?
(a) That "the bastard children of their husbands were killed."
(b) That "their husbands do wrong with colored women."
(c) That "they find suitable White mistresses to ensure pure blood."
(d) That "slaves were always on the verge of hostility."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first Black woman elected to the YWCA's national board in 1924?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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