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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Black Braintrusters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children were in Charlotte Hawkins Brown's family?
(a) 11.
(b) 14.
(c) 19.
(d) 9.

2. What school did the Daytona School for Girls merge with?
(a) Du Bois' Boys Institute.
(b) Washington Institute.
(c) Cookman Institute.
(d) Frankman's Boys School.

3. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?
(a) People's Grocery.
(b) Misson's Grocery.
(c) Southern Grocery.
(d) First Street Grocery.

4. What riot inspired the sonnet that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge placed into "The Congressional Record"?
(a) The Virginia riot.
(b) The Chicago riot.
(c) The New York riot.
(d) The Charleston riot.

5. 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) Ida B. Wells.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What cigar company found itself in the middle of a strike in 1917 in Norfolk, Virginia?

2. How many people, out of the 139 named, were of mixed heritage in W.E.B. Du Bois' "Who's Who of Colored Americans"?

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

4. What show featured Black women singing arias from "Faust," "Rigoletto," and other operas?

5. What, by order of the House of Burgesses, were masters of slaves able to do to their servants?

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