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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?
(a) Richard Martin.
(b) Hugh Davis.
(c) Deacon Marks.
(d) Frederick Salts.

2. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?
(a) By six.
(b) By three.
(c) By two.
(d) By four.

3. What nation's exhibit did Frederick Douglass preside over at the exposition of 1893?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Cuba.

4. What did the text claim was so "rampant" in the South that thousands of Black women were compelled to leave the South?
(a) Wife beatings.
(b) Lynchings.
(c) Sexual exploitation.
(d) Murders.

5. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Fairbanks.
(c) Nashville.
(d) New York City.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?

2. What was the name of the first Black novel published in America? (1861)

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

4. Who was the author of the first Black novel written in America?

5. In 1874, what was the most formidable women's organization in Britain?

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