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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. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?
(a) By three.
(b) By six.
(c) By four.
(d) By two.

2. How old was Mary Church Terrell when she learned of the lynching of the grocer?
(a) 16.
(b) 29.
(c) 26.
(d) 19.

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

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

5. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1880.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?

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

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

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