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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 were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?
(a) The church.
(b) The local prison authorities.
(c) The local governing male.
(d) Another slave holder outside of Virginia.

2. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?
(a) Pi Beta Alpha.
(b) Alpha Kappa Alpha.
(c) Kappa Delta Sigma.
(d) Alpha Beta Kappa.

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

4. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?
(a) 307.
(b) 168.
(c) 673.
(d) 255.

5. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1786.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?

2. 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?

3. What was the name of the woman that taught former slaves in the 1860's in the South Carolina Sea Islands?

4. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?

5. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?

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