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

2. What punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?
(a) Burned at the stake.
(b) Banishment.
(c) Sale to a tobacco farm.
(d) Lynched.

3. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?
(a) "The Negro Family."
(b) "A Need for More."
(c) "Conditions of the Negro in America."
(d) "Desires of the American Slave."

4. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?
(a) Nashville.
(b) New York City.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Fairbanks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?

2. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?

3. How many Whites were shot on the Saturday night raid on the local Black grocery?

4. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?

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

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