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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, according to W.E.B. Du Bois, could you not bribe?
(a) White women.
(b) Black women.
(c) Black people.
(d) White people.

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

3. 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) Jane P. Merritt.
(d) Ida B. Jones.

4. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?
(a) 1619.
(b) 1687.
(c) 1734.
(d) 1567.

5. Who in February of 1893 was lynched in Paris, Texas under the accusation that he had raped a 5-year-old White girl?
(a) Terrance Scott.
(b) Charlie Moor.
(c) Robert Stank.
(d) Henry Smith.

6. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?
(a) By six.
(b) By four.
(c) By three.
(d) By two.

7. How many Black women were registered to vote in New York, where their vote successfully brought about the delegation of Gertrude Curtis and Laura Fisher to the Republican Convention?
(a) 75,000.
(b) 82,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 68,000.

8. How many Whites were shot on the Saturday night raid on the local Black grocery?
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

9. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?
(a) Princeton.
(b) William and Mary.
(c) Atlanta University.
(d) Cornell University.

10. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?
(a) Pi Beta Alpha.
(b) Alpha Beta Kappa.
(c) Alpha Kappa Alpha.
(d) Kappa Delta Sigma.

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

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

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

14. 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) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

15. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Mary Ann Shadd Cary.
(d) Mary Stanton.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?

2. Who, according to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," was the wealthiest and best educated Black woman of the time?

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

4. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?

5. Who became the first Black Alderman of Chicago?

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