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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 first Black novel published in America? (1861)
(a) "Freedom RIngs."
(b) "Clotel."
(c) "Black."
(d) "A Story."

2. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?
(a) By petitioning the government.
(b) By taking authority of women.
(c) By declaring themselves head-of-household.
(d) By purchase of thier wives from the slave holder.

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

4. Who wrote "Voice of the South"?
(a) Dawn South.
(b) Maria Strena Markerson.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Anna Julia Cooper.

5. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?
(a) Black men and women.
(b) Black men and white women.
(c) Black men.
(d) White women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?

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

3. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name," who "stole the show" at the founding meeting of the uniting of the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the National Association of Colored Women?

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

5. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?

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