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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, how many additional years of servitude did a servant woman have to serve if she bore the child of her master?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?
(a) Cornell University.
(b) Princeton.
(c) William and Mary.
(d) Atlanta University.

3. What was the name of the woman that taught former slaves in the 1860's in the South Carolina Sea Islands?
(a) Mary Wright.
(b) Sara Brooks.
(c) Laura Towne.
(d) Martha Banks.

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

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

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

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

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

9. In 1914, who were the largest group of voters in South Carolina?
(a) Black women.
(b) White women.
(c) White men.
(d) Black men.

10. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?
(a) A saloon.
(b) A wheat farm.
(c) A barber shop.
(d) A grocery.

11. Who, in 1609, was sold to a group of Native Americans by Captain John Smith?
(a) Henry Spelman.
(b) Thomas Slavern.
(c) Frederick Glass.
(d) Scott Maze.

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

13. Who, according to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," was the wealthiest and best educated Black woman of the time?
(a) Mary Church Terrell.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Fannie Barrier Williams.

14. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?
(a) Federick Douglass.
(b) Marcus Garvey.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

15. 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) Mary Stone.
(b) Laura Drens.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) Martha Biggins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?

2. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?

3. What did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?

4. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?

5. 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?

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