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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?
(a) Baby Wells.
(b) Baby Williams.
(c) Baby Anthoney.
(d) Baby Douglass.

4. Who was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?
(a) Hugh Davis.
(b) Richard Martin.
(c) Frederick Salts.
(d) Deacon Marks.

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

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

7. What did the text claim was so "rampant" in the South that thousands of Black women were compelled to leave the South?
(a) Sexual exploitation.
(b) Wife beatings.
(c) Murders.
(d) Lynchings.

8. What was the name of the first Black novel published in America? (1861)
(a) "Clotel."
(b) "A Story."
(c) "Black."
(d) "Freedom RIngs."

9. According to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," what was judged by where a woman wanted to go rather than by where she was?
(a) Equality.
(b) Worth.
(c) Morality.
(d) Character.

10. 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."

11. What happened to the Gross National Product between 1869 and 1899?
(a) It doubled.
(b) It was cut in half.
(c) It was cut by one fourth.
(d) It tripled.

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

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

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

15. Who wrote the poem "Deliverance"?
(a) Milly Green.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Mary Church.
(d) Francis Ellen Harper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?

2. What was the name of the woman that taught former slaves in the 1860's in the South Carolina Sea Islands?

3. What, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?

4. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?

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

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