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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 was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?
(a) Frederick Salts.
(b) Hugh Davis.
(c) Richard Martin.
(d) Deacon Marks.

2. 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) Jane Addams.
(b) Mary Stone.
(c) Martha Biggins.
(d) Laura Drens.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?

2. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)

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

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

5. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?

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