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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 four.
(b) By three.
(c) By six.
(d) By two.

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

3. 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."

4. 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?
(a) Laura Drens.
(b) Mary Stone.
(c) Martha Biggins.
(d) Jane Addams.

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

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

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

8. According to the Chapter "Defending Our Name," what city in 1893 exported more cotton than any other city in America?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Charleston.

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

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

11. 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) Memphis.
(d) Jackson.

12. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?
(a) Escaping them.
(b) Burning fields.
(c) Poisoning them.
(d) Seducing them.

13. 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) 82,000.
(b) 40,000.
(c) 68,000.
(d) 75,000.

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

15. How much money did the CWL successfully lobby to establish kindergarten classes in 1898?
(a) $4,000.
(b) $20,000.
(c) $12,000.
(d) $7,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?

3. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?

4. What club was organized by Ida Wells-Barnett in 1913.

5. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?

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