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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 was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?
(a) Sylvia.
(b) Kate.
(c) Ida.
(d) Mary.

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

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

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

5. What was established for the purpose of invalid girls to go and help the poor?
(a) Farcet House.
(b) Miller's House.
(c) Well-Stone Home.
(d) Hull House.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the poem "Deliverance"?

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

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

4. According to an article in "The Independent," as referenced by the text in the chapter "Defending Our Name," what did White women prefer to happen to "keep their husbands straight"?

5. Who, in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage," was quoted as saying "divine law makes no distinction between the sexes"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the differences between the Black and White women's organizations?

2. What law did Virginia pass in regard to children born to Black female slaves and their masters?

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

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

5. Describe the two sides regarding the Fifteenth Amendment.

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

7. Why did the chapter "Defending Our Name" state that Ida B. Wells should have been pleased?

8. What did the end of the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" state were the problems that educated Black women faced?

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

10. What was the goal of the CWPA?

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