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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?
(a) Atlanta University.
(b) Cornell University.
(c) William and Mary.
(d) Princeton.

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

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

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

5. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Nashville.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Whites were shot on the Saturday night raid on the local Black grocery?

2. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?

3. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)

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

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

(see the answer key)

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