View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, by order of the House of Burgesses, were masters of slaves able to do to their servants?
(a) Hang them.
(b) Starve them.
(c) Whip them.
(d) Have intercourse with them.

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

4. What was established for the purpose of invalid girls to go and help the poor?
(a) Farcet House.
(b) Miller's House.
(c) Hull House.
(d) Well-Stone Home.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?

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?

4. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 287 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample