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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whose philosophy did schools need to use in order to insure funding for Black schools?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

4. In 1915, how many state and local branches did the Black Chamber of Commerce have?
(a) 170.
(b) 16.
(c) 250.
(d) 600.

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

6. What was the name of the White women's club founded in 1868 because of the exclusion of women journalists.
(a) The American Journalists Club.
(b) The New York Woman Writers Club.
(c) The Sorosis Women's Club.
(d) The American Woman Writers Club.

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

8. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?
(a) Charles Remond.
(b) Robert Purvis.
(c) Isaac Meyers.
(d) Harriet Forten Remond.

9. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1884.

10. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?
(a) Orsen Walls.
(b) Micheal Miller.
(c) Stephen Strenton.
(d) Richard Hofstadter.

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

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

13. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?
(a) 255.
(b) 673.
(c) 168.
(d) 307.

14. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?
(a) The local governing male.
(b) The church.
(c) Another slave holder outside of Virginia.
(d) The local prison authorities.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?

3. Who in February of 1893 was lynched in Paris, Texas under the accusation that he had raped a 5-year-old White girl?

4. What did Ida B. Wells-Barnett claim robbed women of one of the most glorious advantages?

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

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