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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the leading suffragist of the Tuskegee Woman's Club (as denoted in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage")?
(a) Adella Hunt Logan.
(b) Margie Malcolm Knews.
(c) Dorothy Lewerys.
(d) Sarah Brooks Banks.

2. 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) Josephine Seams.
(b) Mary Franklin.
(c) Ida B. Jones.
(d) Jane P. Merritt.

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

4. What was established for the purpose of invalid girls to go and help the poor?
(a) Farcet House.
(b) Miller's House.
(c) Hull House.
(d) Well-Stone Home.

5. Who, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

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

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

8. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?
(a) Marcus Garvey.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Federick Douglass.

9. What did Ida B. Wells-Barnett claim robbed women of one of the most glorious advantages?
(a) Ignoring their culture.
(b) Not having children.
(c) Bowing to White power.
(d) Marrying poor.

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

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

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

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

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

15. How many signatures did the Victoria Earle Mathew's Loyal Union collect in support of the Blair Amendment?
(a) 10,000+.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 9,100.
(d) 8,800.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?

2. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?

3. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?

4. What was the motto of the NACW?

5. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?

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