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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 did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?
(a) Freedom papers.
(b) A Winchester rifle.
(c) A deed to the home.
(d) The man of the household.

2. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?
(a) By four.
(b) By two.
(c) By six.
(d) By three.

3. What caused the death of both of Ida B. Wells' parents?
(a) Polio.
(b) Small pox.
(c) Diphtheria.
(d) Yellow fever.

4. According to the Chapter "Defending Our Name," what city in 1893 exported more cotton than any other city in America?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Nashville.

5. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?
(a) Baby Wells.
(b) Baby Williams.
(c) Baby Anthoney.
(d) Baby Douglass.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?

2. What did the text in the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" detail that captains of industry would later be called?

3. 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?

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

5. What did the text claim was so "rampant" in the South that thousands of Black women were compelled to leave the South?

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