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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 Ida B. Wells-Barnett claim robbed women of one of the most glorious advantages?
(a) Ignoring their culture.
(b) Marrying poor.
(c) Not having children.
(d) Bowing to White power.

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

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

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

5. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?
(a) Southern Grocery.
(b) First Street Grocery.
(c) Misson's Grocery.
(d) People's Grocery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ida B. Wells claim "should have a place of honor in every home"?

2. What was established for the purpose of invalid girls to go and help the poor?

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

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

5. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened as a result of Ida B. Wellss' British tour?

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

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

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

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

6. How did Representative Clark of Florida (1915) prefer to look at women?

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

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

9. Why did the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage" state that women's suffrage was important?

10. After emancipation, what did both Black men and women escape from? (Not in regard to slavery itself.)

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