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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 caused the death of both of Ida B. Wells' parents?
(a) Polio.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Small pox.
(d) Diphtheria.

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

3. 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?
(a) Martha Biggins.
(b) Jane Addams.
(c) Laura Drens.
(d) Mary Stone.

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

5. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?
(a) "Adaptations of the Post-Slave."
(b) "Criminal Man."
(c) "Science of the Negro."
(d) "Wickedness of the Black."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?

2. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?

3. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?

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

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

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