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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1874, what was the most formidable women's organization in Britain?
(a) The FCWB.
(b) The WCTU.
(c) The ECWO.
(d) The NACB.

2. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?
(a) "Wickedness of the Black."
(b) "Adaptations of the Post-Slave."
(c) "Criminal Man."
(d) "Science of the Negro."

3. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?
(a) The slave-master of the premises.
(b) Their master.
(c) The local government.
(d) The federal government.

4. Whose philosophy did schools need to use in order to insure funding for Black schools?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

5. Who was committed to Dr. S. Wier Mitchell's Hospital of Orthopedic and Nervous Diseases because of her inability to withstand the stresses of being educated and financially sound and having to care for ailing members of her family?
(a) Laura Drens.
(b) Mary Stone.
(c) Martha Biggins.
(d) Jane Addams.

6. What did the chapter, "To Be A Woman Sublime" state to be a watershed in the history of Black women?
(a) The organization of th YWCA.
(b) The organization of the NACW.
(c) The organization of the AAWO.
(d) The NAACP.

7. According to Virginia law, how many additional years of servitude did a servant woman have to serve if she bore the child of her master?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

8. What did Lottie Wilson Jackson not want Black women to be compelled to ride in?
(a) Third Class.
(b) "Colored cars."
(c) Smoking cars.
(d) Luggage cars.

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

10. Who was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?
(a) Hugh Davis.
(b) Deacon Marks.
(c) Frederick Salts.
(d) Richard Martin.

11. Who became dean of Howard University, was a founding member of the NAACP, and opposed women's suffrage?
(a) Thomas Mandler.
(b) Kelly Miller.
(c) Francis Maclomb.
(d) Eric Mend.

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

13. Who wrote the poem "Deliverance"?
(a) Milly Green.
(b) Francis Ellen Harper.
(c) Mary Church.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

14. Who wrote "Voice of the South"?
(a) Anna Julia Cooper.
(b) Maria Strena Markerson.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Dawn South.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?

2. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name" what did Black women have to confront and redefine?

3. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?

4. What club was organized by Ida Wells-Barnett in 1913.

5. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?

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