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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) Whip them.
(b) Have intercourse with them.
(c) Hang them.
(d) Starve them.

2. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?
(a) Micheal Miller.
(b) Orsen Walls.
(c) Richard Hofstadter.
(d) Stephen Strenton.

3. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?
(a) A grocery.
(b) A barber shop.
(c) A wheat farm.
(d) A saloon.

4. What caused the death of both of Ida B. Wells' parents?
(a) Diphtheria.
(b) Small pox.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Polio.

5. What was the name of the first Black novel published in America? (1861)
(a) "Freedom RIngs."
(b) "Clotel."
(c) "Black."
(d) "A Story."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?

4. What was established for the purpose of invalid girls to go and help the poor?

5. Who was lynched at the opening of the book?

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