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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. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Federick Douglass.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Marcus Garvey.

2. How many Whites were shot on the Saturday night raid on the local Black grocery?
(a) 7.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

4. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Nashville.

5. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?
(a) Poisoning them.
(b) Escaping them.
(c) Burning fields.
(d) Seducing them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?

2. Who was the author of the first Black novel written in America?

3. 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?

4. What caused the death of both of Ida B. Wells' parents?

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

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