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

2. Who was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?
(a) Deacon Marks.
(b) Frederick Salts.
(c) Richard Martin.
(d) Hugh Davis.

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

4. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?
(a) Southern Grocery.
(b) Misson's Grocery.
(c) First Street Grocery.
(d) People's Grocery.

5. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?
(a) Baby Douglass.
(b) Baby Williams.
(c) Baby Anthoney.
(d) Baby Wells.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was lynched at the opening of the book?

2. What was the name of the first Black novel published in America? (1861)

3. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?

4. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?

5. What did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?

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