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

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

3. Who became the first Black Alderman of Chicago?
(a) Oscar DePriest.
(b) Anthony Roberts.
(c) Jefferson Terrell.
(d) Thomas Paine.

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

5. What caused the death of both of Ida B. Wells' parents?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Polio.
(c) Small pox.
(d) Diphtheria.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1915, how many state and local branches did the Black Chamber of Commerce have?

2. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?

3. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?

4. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Ultimately, why was Thomas Moss lynched?

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

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

9. What was the goal of the CWPA?

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

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