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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Morality.
(b) Character.
(c) Worth.
(d) Equality.

4. Who became the first Black Alderman of Chicago?
(a) Jefferson Terrell.
(b) Anthony Roberts.
(c) Thomas Paine.
(d) Oscar DePriest.

5. What exposition in 1893 presented Black women with the opportunity to address the redefining of the criteria of true womanhood?
(a) The World Colombian Exposition.
(b) The Southern Rights Exposition.
(c) The Black Rights Exposition.
(d) The American Liberal Exposition.

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

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

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

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

10. What city did the lynching occur at the opening of the book?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Memphis.

11. What punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?
(a) Burned at the stake.
(b) Banishment.
(c) Lynched.
(d) Sale to a tobacco farm.

12. What did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?
(a) A deed to the home.
(b) A Winchester rifle.
(c) The man of the household.
(d) Freedom papers.

13. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?
(a) White women.
(b) Black men and women.
(c) Black men.
(d) Black men and white women.

14. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Frances Willard.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Lady Somerset.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?

3. In the chapter "To Be a Woman Sublime," according to Francis Ellen Harper the nineteenth century is discovering what?

4. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)

5. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?

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