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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Frances Ellen Harper.
(c) Donna Mary Banks.
(d) Mattie Griffith.

3. What, by order of the House of Burgesses, were masters of slaves able to do to their servants?
(a) Whip them.
(b) Have intercourse with them.
(c) Starve them.
(d) Hang them.

4. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?
(a) Misson's Grocery.
(b) Southern Grocery.
(c) First Street Grocery.
(d) People's Grocery.

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

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

7. 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.

8. Who was lynched at the opening of the book?
(a) Shawn Morgan.
(b) Thomas Moss.
(c) Derrik Jones.
(d) Stewart Wells.

9. In 1913, what group organized a march in Washington, D.C. for the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration?
(a) The NAACP.
(b) The NAWSA.
(c) The WOW.
(d) The BWLA.

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

11. What did the chapter, "To Be A Woman Sublime" state to be a watershed in the history of Black women?
(a) The NAACP.
(b) The organization of th YWCA.
(c) The organization of the NACW.
(d) The organization of the AAWO.

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

13. How old was Mary Church Terrell when she learned of the lynching of the grocer?
(a) 19.
(b) 26.
(c) 16.
(d) 29.

14. What, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?
(a) Moral integrity.
(b) Their ability to work.
(c) Self-love.
(d) Complacency.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?

2. Who was committed to Dr. S. Wier Mitchell's Hospital of Orthopedic and Nervous Diseases because of her inability to withstand the stresses of being educated and financially sound and having to care for ailing members of her family?

3. In 1915, how many state and local branches did the Black Chamber of Commerce have?

4. Who organized the Colored Women's Progressive Association in 1880?

5. What was the name of the White women's club founded in 1868 because of the exclusion of women journalists.

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