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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 the text in the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" detail that captains of industry would later be called?
(a) "Freedom Fighters."
(b) "Dismantlers."
(c) "Robber barons."
(d) "Easers of Poverty."

2. 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) Ida B. Wells.
(c) Harriet Tubman.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

3. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?
(a) Donna Mary Banks.
(b) Mattie Griffith.
(c) Frances Ellen Harper.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

4. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?
(a) The slave-master of the premises.
(b) Their master.
(c) The local government.
(d) The federal government.

5. What did Ida B. Wells-Barnett claim robbed women of one of the most glorious advantages?
(a) Marrying poor.
(b) Ignoring their culture.
(c) Bowing to White power.
(d) Not having children.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Chapter "Defending Our Name," what city in 1893 exported more cotton than any other city in America?

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

3. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?

4. How old was Mary Church Terrell when she learned of the lynching of the grocer?

5. In 1915, how many state and local branches did the Black Chamber of Commerce have?

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