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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prelude to a Movement.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?
(a) Misson's Grocery.
(b) Southern Grocery.
(c) First Street Grocery.
(d) People's Grocery.

3. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?
(a) By purchase of thier wives from the slave holder.
(b) By petitioning the government.
(c) By declaring themselves head-of-household.
(d) By taking authority of women.

4. 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) Ida B. Jones.
(b) Jane P. Merritt.
(c) Mary Franklin.
(d) Josephine Seams.

5. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?
(a) Mary Stanton.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Mary Ann Shadd Cary.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

Short Answer 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?

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

3. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?

4. What happened to the Gross National Product between 1869 and 1899?

5. Who was committed to Dr. S. Wier Mitchell's Hospital of Orthopedic and Nervous Diseases because of her inability to withstand the stresses of being educated and financially sound and having to care for ailing members of her family?

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