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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dress Rehearsal for the Sixties, Coming Full Circle, Women's Movement and Black Discontent, Strong Women and Strutting Men, and Outlook.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?
(a) A Winchester rifle.
(b) A deed to the home.
(c) The man of the household.
(d) Freedom papers.

2. What did the text claim was so "rampant" in the South that thousands of Black women were compelled to leave the South?
(a) Sexual exploitation.
(b) Lynchings.
(c) Murders.
(d) Wife beatings.

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

4. 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?
(a) 75,000.
(b) 40,000.
(c) 68,000.
(d) 82,000.

5. On what date did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?
(a) March 4, 1945.
(b) December 1, 1955.
(c) January 13, 1975.
(d) April 15, 1967.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to the United States entering into WWII, what percent of school systems refused to hire married women?

2. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?

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

4. During the 1920s, what rate shot up?

5. Who in 1866 sues the San Francisco Trolley Company for preventing her, a Black woman, from riding on one of its cars?

(see the answer key)

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