1. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?
(a) Pi Beta Alpha.
(b) Alpha Beta Kappa.
(c) Kappa Delta Sigma.
(d) Alpha Kappa Alpha.

2. What punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?
(a) Burned at the stake.
(b) Lynched.
(c) Sale to a tobacco farm.
(d) Banishment.

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

4. What nation's exhibit did Frederick Douglass preside over at the exposition of 1893?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Jamaica.

5. Whom did Anna Julia Cooper state was the "finest woman I have ever known"?
(a) The slave master's wife.
(b) The slave whom acted as her mother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?

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

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

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

5. Who was the author of the first Black novel written in America?

(see the answer key)

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