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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Mary Stone.
(b) Laura Drens.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) Martha Biggins.

4. What nation's exhibit did Frederick Douglass preside over at the exposition of 1893?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Cuba.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Jamaica.

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

6. What was the name of the woman that taught former slaves in the 1860's in the South Carolina Sea Islands?
(a) Laura Towne.
(b) Martha Banks.
(c) Mary Wright.
(d) Sara Brooks.

7. What did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?
(a) The man of the household.
(b) A deed to the home.
(c) Freedom papers.
(d) A Winchester rifle.

8. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?
(a) First Street Grocery.
(b) People's Grocery.
(c) Misson's Grocery.
(d) Southern Grocery.

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

10. What was the name of the Black woman that threatened to boycott the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 if Black women were not given a "more substantial voice in the proceedings"?
(a) Mary Franklin.
(b) Jane P. Merritt.
(c) Ida B. Jones.
(d) Josephine Seams.

11. What was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?
(a) Ida.
(b) Mary.
(c) Kate.
(d) Sylvia.

12. In the chapter "To Be a Woman Sublime," according to Francis Ellen Harper the nineteenth century is discovering what?
(a) "Woman's power over man."
(b) "Colored women."
(c) "Man's power over woman."
(d) "Woman herself."

13. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name" what did Black women have to confront and redefine?
(a) Morality.
(b) Womanhood.
(c) Classism.
(d) Racism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?

2. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?

3. Whose philosophy did schools need to use in order to insure funding for Black schools?

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?

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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