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

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

3. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?
(a) 168.
(b) 673.
(c) 255.
(d) 307.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?

2. Who in February of 1893 was lynched in Paris, Texas under the accusation that he had raped a 5-year-old White girl?

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

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

5. What did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?

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