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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. What punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?
(a) Lynched.
(b) Banishment.
(c) Burned at the stake.
(d) Sale to a tobacco farm.

2. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)
(a) Jackson.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Memphis.

3. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?
(a) "The Negro Family."
(b) "A Need for More."
(c) "Conditions of the Negro in America."
(d) "Desires of the American Slave."

4. What cigar company found itself in the middle of a strike in 1917 in Norfolk, Virginia?
(a) The American Cigar Company.
(b) The Virginia Cigar Company.
(c) The East Coast Cigar Company.
(d) The Richmond Cigar Company.

5. In 1830, who did Maria Stewart tell that it was their duty to cultivate a pure heart and thirst for knowledge in their children?
(a) Black men.
(b) Black and white mothers.
(c) Black mothers.
(d) Teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?

2. What novel described all kinds of women with poetic rapture?

3. How many Black women were registered to vote in New York, where their vote successfully brought about the delegation of Gertrude Curtis and Laura Fisher to the Republican Convention?

4. America was the ___________ nation to enfranchise women.

5. According to Virginia law, how many additional years of servitude did a servant woman have to serve if she bore the child of her master?

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