1. 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.

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

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

4. What was the name of the Black woman that threatened to boycott the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 if Black women were not given a "more substantial voice in the proceedings"?
(a) Mary Franklin.
(b) Jane P. Merritt.
(c) Ida B. Jones.
(d) Josephine Seams.

5. What did the text in the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" detail that captains of industry would later be called?
(a) "Dismantlers."
(b) "Robber barons."
(c) "Easers of Poverty."
(d) "Freedom Fighters."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?

3. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?

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

5. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?

(see the answer key)

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