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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Enter Mary McLeod Bethune.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many lynching took place between 1919 and 1923?
(a) 239.
(b) 301.
(c) 100.
(d) 179.

2. Who, in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage," was quoted as saying "divine law makes no distinction between the sexes"?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Reverend R.E. Wall.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children were in Charlotte Hawkins Brown's family?

2. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?

3. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?

4. What did the text in the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" detail that captains of industry would later be called?

5. In 1913, what group organized a march in Washington, D.C. for the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration?

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