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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through To Choose Again, Freely.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?
(a) Banishment.
(b) Sale to a tobacco farm.
(c) Burned at the stake.
(d) Lynched.

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

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

4. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?
(a) Isaac Meyers.
(b) Charles Remond.
(c) Harriet Forten Remond.
(d) Robert Purvis.

5. According to Virginia law, how many additional years of servitude did a servant woman have to serve if she bore the child of her master?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?

2. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?

3. Who was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?

4. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?

5. What was the name of the first Black novel published in America? (1861)

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