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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?

4. In the chapter "To Be a Woman Sublime," according to Francis Ellen Harper the nineteenth century is discovering what?

5. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Robert Purvis say about the equality of sexes?

2. A month before Blacks set foot in Virginia, what laws did the House of Burgesses pass?

3. What incident moved W.E.B. Du Bois to praise Black women for their courage?

4. What headlines ran on Christmas Day in 1884 in the "Daily Appeal"?

5. What was the goal of the CWPA?

6. What opinion did "The Woman's Era" (1894) offer regarding the traditional roles of women?

7. What were Thomas Moss's final words before he was lynched in Tennessee?

8. Why did many of the Baptist clergy state that the only place for women was in the church singing?

9. What contradictions did Black women face when it came to supporting Booker T. Washington?

10. Why was the Black family under siege between 1890 and 1910?

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