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

2. What happened to the Gross National Product between 1869 and 1899?
(a) It was cut by one fourth.
(b) It doubled.
(c) It tripled.
(d) It was cut in half.

3. What school did the Daytona School for Girls merge with?
(a) Du Bois' Boys Institute.
(b) Cookman Institute.
(c) Washington Institute.
(d) Frankman's Boys School.

4. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?
(a) The church.
(b) The local prison authorities.
(c) The local governing male.
(d) Another slave holder outside of Virginia.

5. After 1970, what organization was synonymous with the women's movement?
(a) NAACP.
(b) WOA.
(c) NOW.
(d) NOBAW.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the first Black novel published in America? (1861)

2. In 1914, who were the largest group of voters in South Carolina?

3. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?

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?

5. Who was the YWCA's first Black secretary?

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