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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 many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?
(a) 54.
(b) 5.
(c) 17.
(d) 10.

2. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?
(a) By purchase of thier wives from the slave holder.
(b) By declaring themselves head-of-household.
(c) By petitioning the government.
(d) By taking authority of women.

3. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?
(a) By four.
(b) By six.
(c) By three.
(d) By two.

4. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?
(a) Black men and women.
(b) Black men and white women.
(c) Black men.
(d) White women.

5. What, by order of the House of Burgesses, were masters of slaves able to do to their servants?
(a) Whip them.
(b) Have intercourse with them.
(c) Hang them.
(d) Starve them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?

3. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?

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

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

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