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

2. What was the name of the Black woman that threatened to boycott the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 if Black women were not given a "more substantial voice in the proceedings"?
(a) Jane P. Merritt.
(b) Mary Franklin.
(c) Josephine Seams.
(d) Ida B. Jones.

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?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Mary Church Terrell when she learned of the lynching of the grocer?

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

3. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?

4. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?

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

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