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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 city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Montgomery.

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

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

4. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?
(a) 1734.
(b) 1687.
(c) 1567.
(d) 1619.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?

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

5. What was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?

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