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

2. What did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?
(a) Freedom papers.
(b) A deed to the home.
(c) The man of the household.
(d) A Winchester rifle.

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

4. What was the name of the woman that taught former slaves in the 1860's in the South Carolina Sea Islands?
(a) Sara Brooks.
(b) Martha Banks.
(c) Mary Wright.
(d) Laura Towne.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?

3. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?

4. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?

5. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?

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