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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What caused the death of both of Ida B. Wells' parents?
(a) Polio.
(b) Small pox.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Diphtheria.
2. In 1895, who was the principal of the Tuskegee Institute?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) Andrew Carnegie.
(c) Terrance Williams.
(d) Frederick Douglass.
3. What was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?
(a) Kate.
(b) Sylvia.
(c) Ida.
(d) Mary.
4. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name" what did Black women have to confront and redefine?
(a) Womanhood.
(b) Morality.
(c) Classism.
(d) Racism.
5. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?
(a) "The Negro Family."
(b) "Desires of the American Slave."
(c) "Conditions of the Negro in America."
(d) "A Need for More."
6. 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) Ida B. Jones.
(c) Jane P. Merritt.
(d) Josephine Seams.
7. Who, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Ida B. Wells.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
8. In 1874, what was the most formidable women's organization in Britain?
(a) The FCWB.
(b) The ECWO.
(c) The WCTU.
(d) The NACB.
9. What nation's exhibit did Frederick Douglass preside over at the exposition of 1893?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Cuba.
10. 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) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Reverend R.E. Wall.
(d) Ida B. Wells.
11. 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) Hang them.
(d) Whip them.
12. What punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?
(a) Burned at the stake.
(b) Lynched.
(c) Sale to a tobacco farm.
(d) Banishment.
13. Who was the author of the first Black novel written in America?
(a) William Wells Brown.
(b) Richard M. Morester.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.
14. According to the Chapter "Defending Our Name," what city in 1893 exported more cotton than any other city in America?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Memphis.
15. What was the name of the White women's club founded in 1868 because of the exclusion of women journalists.
(a) The American Journalists Club.
(b) The Sorosis Women's Club.
(c) The American Woman Writers Club.
(d) The New York Woman Writers Club.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?
2. What did Lottie Wilson Jackson not want Black women to be compelled to ride in?
3. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?
4. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?
5. Whom did Anna Julia Cooper state was the "finest woman I have ever known"?
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