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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 did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?
(a) A wheat farm.
(b) A grocery.
(c) A barber shop.
(d) A saloon.

2. Whose philosophy did schools need to use in order to insure funding for Black schools?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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) Mary Franklin.
(b) Ida B. Jones.
(c) Josephine Seams.
(d) Jane P. Merritt.

4. 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 prison authorities.
(c) Another slave holder outside of Virginia.
(d) The local governing male.

5. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?
(a) "Desires of the American Slave."
(b) "The Negro Family."
(c) "Conditions of the Negro in America."
(d) "A Need for More."

Short Answer Questions

1. What punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?

2. Who wrote "Voice of the South"?

3. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?

4. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?

5. Who was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?

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