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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the chapter "To Be a Woman Sublime," according to Francis Ellen Harper the nineteenth century is discovering what?
(a) "Woman herself."
(b) "Man's power over woman."
(c) "Colored women."
(d) "Woman's power over man."

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

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

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

5. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name" what did Black women have to confront and redefine?
(a) Racism.
(b) Womanhood.
(c) Classism.
(d) Morality.

6. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Mary Church Terrell.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

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

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

10. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?
(a) The federal government.
(b) The slave-master of the premises.
(c) Their master.
(d) The local government.

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

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

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

14. What, by order of the House of Burgesses, were masters of slaves able to do to their servants?
(a) Whip them.
(b) Have intercourse with them.
(c) Hang them.
(d) Starve them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?

2. What did the chapter, "To Be A Woman Sublime" state to be a watershed in the history of Black women?

3. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?

4. Who was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?

5. Who, according to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," was the wealthiest and best educated Black woman of the time?

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