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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Quest for Woman Suffrage.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?
(a) Stephen Strenton.
(b) Richard Hofstadter.
(c) Micheal Miller.
(d) Orsen Walls.

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

4. 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 six.
(b) By three.
(c) By four.
(d) By two.

5. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) New York City.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Fairbanks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the White women's club founded in 1868 because of the exclusion of women journalists.

2. In 1895, who was the principal of the Tuskegee Institute?

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

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

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

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