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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 happened to the Gross National Product between 1869 and 1899?
(a) It doubled.
(b) It was cut in half.
(c) It was cut by one fourth.
(d) It tripled.

2. According to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," what was judged by where a woman wanted to go rather than by where she was?
(a) Worth.
(b) Equality.
(c) Character.
(d) Morality.

3. What was the name of the White women's club founded in 1868 because of the exclusion of women journalists.
(a) The Sorosis Women's Club.
(b) The New York Woman Writers Club.
(c) The American Woman Writers Club.
(d) The American Journalists Club.

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

5. What did the chapter, "To Be A Woman Sublime" state to be a watershed in the history of Black women?
(a) The organization of the NACW.
(b) The organization of the AAWO.
(c) The organization of th YWCA.
(d) The NAACP.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?

2. How much money did the CWL successfully lobby to establish kindergarten classes in 1898?

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

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

5. According to an article in "The Independent," as referenced by the text in the chapter "Defending Our Name," what did White women prefer to happen to "keep their husbands straight"?

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