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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to an article in "The Independent," as referenced by the text in the chapter "Defending Our Name," what did White women prefer to happen to "keep their husbands straight"?
(a) That "they find suitable White mistresses to ensure pure blood."
(b) That "slaves were always on the verge of hostility."
(c) That "the bastard children of their husbands were killed."
(d) That "their husbands do wrong with colored women."

2. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?
(a) Black men.
(b) Black men and women.
(c) Black men and white women.
(d) White women.

3. In 1895, who was the principal of the Tuskegee Institute?
(a) Terrance Williams.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Andrew Carnegie.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

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

5. What was the motto of the NACW?
(a) "Lifting as We Climb."
(b) "Lifting Voices, Hope, and Acceptance."
(c) "Acceptance, Equality, and Love."
(d) "Insuring Our Voices Heard."

6. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?
(a) 255.
(b) 168.
(c) 307.
(d) 673.

7. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?
(a) Kappa Delta Sigma.
(b) Pi Beta Alpha.
(c) Alpha Kappa Alpha.
(d) Alpha Beta Kappa.

8. 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?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) J. Rosamond Johnson.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

9. What exposition in 1893 presented Black women with the opportunity to address the redefining of the criteria of true womanhood?
(a) The American Liberal Exposition.
(b) The World Colombian Exposition.
(c) The Southern Rights Exposition.
(d) The Black Rights Exposition.

10. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Fairbanks.
(c) New York City.
(d) Washington, D.C.

11. Who was the author of the first Black novel written in America?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) William Wells Brown.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Richard M. Morester.

12. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?
(a) Cornell University.
(b) Princeton.
(c) William and Mary.
(d) Atlanta University.

13. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Montgomery.

14. According to the Chapter "Defending Our Name," what city in 1893 exported more cotton than any other city in America?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Nashville.

15. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Mary Church Terrell.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became dean of Howard University, was a founding member of the NAACP, and opposed women's suffrage?

2. 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?

3. Who in February of 1893 was lynched in Paris, Texas under the accusation that he had raped a 5-year-old White girl?

4. What, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?

5. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?

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