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

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) Micheal Miller.
(c) Orsen Walls.
(d) Richard Hofstadter.

3. Who was the YWCA's first Black secretary?
(a) Theresa Singer.
(b) Sandra Bruns.
(c) Eva Bowles.
(d) Madra Biship.

4. According to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," what was judged by where a woman wanted to go rather than by where she was?
(a) Morality.
(b) Character.
(c) Worth.
(d) Equality.

5. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?
(a) 1786.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1859.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?

2. How old was Mary Church Terrell when she learned of the lynching of the grocer?

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

4. What did the book declare as "the most cohesive institution in the deep South"?

5. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?

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