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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. What did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?
(a) A Winchester rifle.
(b) A deed to the home.
(c) The man of the household.
(d) Freedom papers.

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

3. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Federick Douglass.
(d) Marcus Garvey.

4. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?
(a) The local government.
(b) The slave-master of the premises.
(c) Their master.
(d) The federal government.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What, by order of the House of Burgesses, were masters of slaves able to do to their servants?

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

5. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?

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