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

2. What, by order of the House of Burgesses, were masters of slaves able to do to their servants?
(a) Starve them.
(b) Have intercourse with them.
(c) Hang them.
(d) Whip them.

3. Who, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

4. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?
(a) Frederick Glass.
(b) Thomas Slavern.
(c) Scott Maze.
(d) Henry Spelman.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?

3. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?

4. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?

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

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