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

2. How many Whites were shot on the Saturday night raid on the local Black grocery?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

3. What was the name of the Black woman that threatened to boycott the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 if Black women were not given a "more substantial voice in the proceedings"?
(a) Jane P. Merritt.
(b) Ida B. Jones.
(c) Josephine Seams.
(d) Mary Franklin.

4. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?
(a) Poisoning them.
(b) Burning fields.
(c) Seducing them.
(d) Escaping them.

5. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?
(a) Federick Douglass.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Marcus Garvey.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?

2. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?

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

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

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?

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