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

2. What was the name of the woman that taught former slaves in the 1860's in the South Carolina Sea Islands?
(a) Sara Brooks.
(b) Laura Towne.
(c) Mary Wright.
(d) Martha Banks.

3. In the chapter "To Be a Woman Sublime," according to Francis Ellen Harper the nineteenth century is discovering what?
(a) "Woman herself."
(b) "Woman's power over man."
(c) "Man's power over woman."
(d) "Colored women."

4. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Mary Church Terrell.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

5. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name," who "stole the show" at the founding meeting of the uniting of the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the National Association of Colored Women?
(a) J. Rosamond Johnson.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Whites were shot on the Saturday night raid on the local Black grocery?

2. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?

3. What did the text claim was so "rampant" in the South that thousands of Black women were compelled to leave the South?

4. What did Ida B. Wells-Barnett claim robbed women of one of the most glorious advantages?

5. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?

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