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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. How old was Mary Church Terrell when she learned of the lynching of the grocer?
(a) 16.
(b) 29.
(c) 26.
(d) 19.

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

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

4. What, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?
(a) Their ability to work.
(b) Complacency.
(c) Moral integrity.
(d) Self-love.

5. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?
(a) 1619.
(b) 1687.
(c) 1567.
(d) 1734.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?

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

4. Who was the author of the first Black novel written in America?

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

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