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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, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?
(a) Their ability to work.
(b) Self-love.
(c) Complacency.
(d) Moral integrity.

2. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?
(a) Marcus Garvey.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Federick Douglass.

3. Whose philosophy did schools need to use in order to insure funding for Black schools?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

4. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1884.

5. Who wrote "Voice of the South"?
(a) Maria Strena Markerson.
(b) Anna Julia Cooper.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Dawn South.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name," who "stole the show" at the founding meeting of the uniting of the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the National Association of Colored Women?

2. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?

3. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?

4. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?

5. Who wrote the poem "Deliverance"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What commonalities did Black and White women's organizations have?

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

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

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

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

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