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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?
(a) Burned at the stake.
(b) Sale to a tobacco farm.
(c) Banishment.
(d) Lynched.

2. What did the text in the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" detail that captains of industry would later be called?
(a) "Easers of Poverty."
(b) "Robber barons."
(c) "Dismantlers."
(d) "Freedom Fighters."

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

4. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?
(a) Robert Purvis.
(b) Harriet Forten Remond.
(c) Isaac Meyers.
(d) Charles Remond.

5. Whom did Anna Julia Cooper state was the "finest woman I have ever known"?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Ida B. Wells.
(c) The slave whom acted as her mother.
(d) The slave master's wife.

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

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

8. 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.

9. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?
(a) "A Need for More."
(b) "Conditions of the Negro in America."
(c) "The Negro Family."
(d) "Desires of the American Slave."

10. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?
(a) Poisoning them.
(b) Seducing them.
(c) Escaping them.
(d) Burning fields.

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1884.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?

3. What was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?

4. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?

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

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