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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) Ida B. Jones.
(c) Mary Franklin.
(d) Jane P. Merritt.

3. According to an article in "The Independent," as referenced by the text in the chapter "Defending Our Name," what did White women prefer to happen to "keep their husbands straight"?
(a) That "their husbands do wrong with colored women."
(b) That "they find suitable White mistresses to ensure pure blood."
(c) That "slaves were always on the verge of hostility."
(d) That "the bastard children of their husbands were killed."

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

5. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?
(a) By petitioning the government.
(b) By taking authority of women.
(c) By declaring themselves head-of-household.
(d) By purchase of thier wives from the slave holder.

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

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

8. Who wrote "Voice of the South"?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Dawn South.
(c) Maria Strena Markerson.
(d) Anna Julia Cooper.

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

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

11. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?
(a) 17.
(b) 54.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

12. What was the motto of the NACW?
(a) "Insuring Our Voices Heard."
(b) "Acceptance, Equality, and Love."
(c) "Lifting as We Climb."
(d) "Lifting Voices, Hope, and Acceptance."

13. In 1895, who was the principal of the Tuskegee Institute?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Terrance Williams.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) Andrew Carnegie.

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

15. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?
(a) Micheal Miller.
(b) Stephen Strenton.
(c) Orsen Walls.
(d) Richard Hofstadter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the leading suffragist of the Tuskegee Woman's Club (as denoted in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage")?

2. What did Ida B. Wells-Barnett claim robbed women of one of the most glorious advantages?

3. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?

4. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?

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

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