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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 happened to the Gross National Product between 1869 and 1899?
(a) It was cut by one fourth.
(b) It was cut in half.
(c) It tripled.
(d) It doubled.

2. Who was lynched at the opening of the book?
(a) Thomas Moss.
(b) Shawn Morgan.
(c) Derrik Jones.
(d) Stewart Wells.

3. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?
(a) 1567.
(b) 1619.
(c) 1734.
(d) 1687.

4. What, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?
(a) Their ability to work.
(b) Self-love.
(c) Moral integrity.
(d) Complacency.

5. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?
(a) A grocery.
(b) A barber shop.
(c) A saloon.
(d) A wheat farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?

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

3. What was established for the purpose of invalid girls to go and help the poor?

4. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?

5. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?

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