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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Defending Our Name.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?
(a) People's Grocery.
(b) Misson's Grocery.
(c) First Street Grocery.
(d) Southern Grocery.

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

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

4. Who, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Ida B. Wells.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

5. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?
(a) "Desires of the American Slave."
(b) "A Need for More."
(c) "Conditions of the Negro in America."
(d) "The Negro Family."

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. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?

3. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?

4. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?

5. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?

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