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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, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?
(a) Moral integrity.
(b) Self-love.
(c) Their ability to work.
(d) Complacency.

2. What club was organized by Ida Wells-Barnett in 1913.
(a) The Alpha Suffrage Club.
(b) The Rights of Women in Illinois Club.
(c) The Women's Suffrage Club.
(d) The Illinois Women's Club.

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

4. Who was quoted at the opening of the chapter "The Second World War and After"?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Virginia Durr.

5. After the strike on the pecan factory in St. Louis ended, how much more per week did the women working there get paid?
(a) 2 dollars more a week.
(b) 4 dollars more a week.
(c) 6 dollars more a week.
(d) 8 dollars more a week.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lynching took place between 1919 and 1923?

2. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?

3. How many Black judges were "in the system" in New York City?

4. How much could a young unmarried woman in domestic service in the North earn in a week during 1920?

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

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