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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. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?
(a) 54.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 17.

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?

3. According to Virginia law, how many additional years of servitude did a servant woman have to serve if she bore the child of her master?

4. Who was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?

5. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?

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