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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. Who wrote "Voice of the South"?
(a) Maria Strena Markerson.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Anna Julia Cooper.
(d) Dawn South.

2. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?
(a) William and Mary.
(b) Atlanta University.
(c) Cornell University.
(d) Princeton.

3. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?
(a) Robert Purvis.
(b) Isaac Meyers.
(c) Charles Remond.
(d) Harriet Forten Remond.

4. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)
(a) Nashville.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Montgomery.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?

3. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?

4. What did the text in the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" detail that captains of industry would later be called?

5. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?

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