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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name" what did Black women have to confront and redefine?
(a) Classism.
(b) Racism.
(c) Womanhood.
(d) Morality.

3. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1874.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?

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

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

4. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?

5. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?

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