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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through To be a Woman Sublime.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?
(a) The church.
(b) The local governing male.
(c) Another slave holder outside of Virginia.
(d) The local prison authorities.

3. What, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?
(a) Moral integrity.
(b) Complacency.
(c) Self-love.
(d) Their ability to work.

4. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Birmingham.

5. What was established for the purpose of invalid girls to go and help the poor?
(a) Hull House.
(b) Well-Stone Home.
(c) Farcet House.
(d) Miller's House.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?

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?

3. What did the chapter, "To Be A Woman Sublime" state to be a watershed in the history of Black women?

4. In 1895, who was the principal of the Tuskegee Institute?

5. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?

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