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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. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?
(a) 54.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 17.

2. What did the text in the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" detail that captains of industry would later be called?
(a) "Freedom Fighters."
(b) "Easers of Poverty."
(c) "Dismantlers."
(d) "Robber barons."

3. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?
(a) By four.
(b) By three.
(c) By two.
(d) By six.

4. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?
(a) Mattie Griffith.
(b) Frances Ellen Harper.
(c) Donna Mary Banks.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

5. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?
(a) Baby Anthoney.
(b) Baby Williams.
(c) Baby Douglass.
(d) Baby Wells.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Mary Church Terrell when she learned of the lynching of the grocer?

3. Who was the author of the first Black novel written in America?

4. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?

5. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?

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