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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 was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?
(a) Kate.
(b) Mary.
(c) Sylvia.
(d) Ida.

2. What Black poet's work was entered into "The Congressional Record" by Senator Henry Lodge?
(a) Selma Thompkins.
(b) Arna Bontemps.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Claude McKay.

3. Who, in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage," was quoted as saying "divine law makes no distinction between the sexes"?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Reverend R.E. Wall.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

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

5. Who was committed to Dr. S. Wier Mitchell's Hospital of Orthopedic and Nervous Diseases because of her inability to withstand the stresses of being educated and financially sound and having to care for ailing members of her family?
(a) Mary Stone.
(b) Martha Biggins.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) Laura Drens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Black branches of the YWCA were there by 1919?

2. Who was the YWCA's first Black secretary?

3. Who was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?

4. What group "went to the extraordinary length of taking a stand against lynching in 1917"?

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

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