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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose philosophy did schools need to use in order to insure funding for Black schools?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

2. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Birmingham.

3. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?
(a) Another slave holder outside of Virginia.
(b) The local prison authorities.
(c) The church.
(d) The local governing male.

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

5. According to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," what was judged by where a woman wanted to go rather than by where she was?
(a) Worth.
(b) Morality.
(c) Equality.
(d) Character.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the White women's club founded in 1868 because of the exclusion of women journalists.

2. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?

3. Where was the Council for Interracial Cooperation founded?

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

5. Who was the YWCA's first Black secretary?

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