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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In 1895, who was the principal of the Tuskegee Institute?
(a) Andrew Carnegie.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Terrance Williams.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

3. 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) Another slave holder outside of Virginia.
(c) The local prison authorities.
(d) The church.

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

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

6. How many signatures did the Victoria Earle Mathew's Loyal Union collect in support of the Blair Amendment?
(a) 10,000+.
(b) 9,100.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 8,800.

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

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

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

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

11. What club was organized by Ida Wells-Barnett in 1913.
(a) The Women's Suffrage Club.
(b) The Rights of Women in Illinois Club.
(c) The Illinois Women's Club.
(d) The Alpha Suffrage Club.

12. What caused the death of both of Ida B. Wells' parents?
(a) Small pox.
(b) Diphtheria.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Polio.

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

14. What did the text in the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" detail that captains of industry would later be called?
(a) "Freedom Fighters."
(b) "Easers of Poverty."
(c) "Robber barons."
(d) "Dismantlers."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the first Black novel published in America? (1861)

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. Who became the first Black Alderman of Chicago?

4. Whom did Anna Julia Cooper state was the "finest woman I have ever known"?

5. In 1914, who were the largest group of voters in South Carolina?

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