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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) J. Rosamond Johnson.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

2. How many Whites were shot on the Saturday night raid on the local Black grocery?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

3. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?
(a) Charles Remond.
(b) Isaac Meyers.
(c) Harriet Forten Remond.
(d) Robert Purvis.

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

5. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?
(a) Another slave holder outside of Virginia.
(b) The local governing male.
(c) The church.
(d) The local prison authorities.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?

4. What nation's exhibit did Frederick Douglass preside over at the exposition of 1893?

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

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