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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 was the name of the first Black child born in America?
(a) Baby Wells.
(b) Baby Douglass.
(c) Baby Williams.
(d) Baby Anthoney.

2. What was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?
(a) Mary.
(b) Kate.
(c) Sylvia.
(d) Ida.

3. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?
(a) Mattie Griffith.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Donna Mary Banks.
(d) Frances Ellen Harper.

4. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?
(a) Black men and white women.
(b) Black men.
(c) White women.
(d) Black men and women.

5. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?
(a) A grocery.
(b) A wheat farm.
(c) A barber shop.
(d) A saloon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?

2. Who was lynched at the opening of the book?

3. Who, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?

4. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?

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

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