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

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

3. According to the Chapter "Defending Our Name," what city in 1893 exported more cotton than any other city in America?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Charleston.
(d) Memphis.

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

5. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 54.
(d) 17.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," was the wealthiest and best educated Black woman of the time?

2. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?

3. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?

4. What was the motto of the NACW?

5. Who, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?

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