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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 punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?
(a) Banishment.
(b) Lynched.
(c) Sale to a tobacco farm.
(d) Burned at the stake.

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

3. Who was the leading suffragist of the Tuskegee Woman's Club (as denoted in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage")?
(a) Sarah Brooks Banks.
(b) Margie Malcolm Knews.
(c) Adella Hunt Logan.
(d) Dorothy Lewerys.

4. What nation's exhibit did Frederick Douglass preside over at the exposition of 1893?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Haiti.

5. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?
(a) Ida B. Wells.
(b) Frances Willard.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Lady Somerset.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," what was judged by where a woman wanted to go rather than by where she was?

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

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

4. Whose philosophy did schools need to use in order to insure funding for Black schools?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused Mary Church Terrell to plunge head-first into a life of vibrant activism?

2. How did Mary Ann Shadd Cary prove that she, as a Black woman, should have the right to vote?

3. What did Ida B. Wells read in a paper after attending a meeting in Washington, D.C. to speak before Black women activists?

4. According to the chapter "Casting of the Die," how did English slave traders describe Black women?

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

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

7. What was the purpose of the World Colombian Exposition of 1893?

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

9. At a women's rights meeting in Akron, Ohio, what was Sojourner Truth's message?

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

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