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

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

3. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?
(a) Frederick Glass.
(b) Thomas Slavern.
(c) Scott Maze.
(d) Henry Spelman.

4. According to Virginia law, how many additional years of servitude did a servant woman have to serve if she bore the child of her master?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

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

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. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?

3. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?

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

5. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?

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