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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the author of the first Black novel written in America?
(a) William Wells Brown.
(b) Richard M. Morester.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

2. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?
(a) New York City.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Fairbanks.
(d) Washington, D.C.

3. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?
(a) "Desires of the American Slave."
(b) "Conditions of the Negro in America."
(c) "The Negro Family."
(d) "A Need for More."

4. What did Elise McDougald state was assuming a subordinate place in regard to feminists efforts?
(a) "The sex struggle."
(b) "The struggle of Black women alone."
(c) "The struggle of race."
(d) "The equality struggle."

5. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?
(a) The federal government.
(b) The slave-master of the premises.
(c) The local government.
(d) Their master.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the woman that taught former slaves in the 1860's in the South Carolina Sea Islands?

2. Who wrote the poem "Deliverance"?

3. What did the chapter "Toward Interracial Cooperation" name as the most "pressing reason to draw out the poison of racial antagonism"?

4. How much money did the CWL successfully lobby to establish kindergarten classes in 1898?

5. Who was elected President of the United States in 1932?

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