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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, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?
(a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

2. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Ida B. Wells.
(c) Mary Church Terrell.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

3. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?
(a) Princeton.
(b) William and Mary.
(c) Cornell University.
(d) Atlanta University.

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

5. 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) Mary Stone.
(d) Laura Drens.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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