View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lottie Wilson Jackson not want Black women to be compelled to ride in?
(a) Smoking cars.
(b) "Colored cars."
(c) Luggage cars.
(d) Third Class.

2. Whom did Anna Julia Cooper state was the "finest woman I have ever known"?
(a) The slave master's wife.
(b) The slave whom acted as her mother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

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

4. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?
(a) William and Mary.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Cornell University.
(d) Atlanta University.

5. What was the name of the woman that taught former slaves in the 1860's in the South Carolina Sea Islands?
(a) Martha Banks.
(b) Sara Brooks.
(c) Laura Towne.
(d) Mary Wright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Gross National Product between 1869 and 1899?

2. What punishment did Maria receive for attempting to burn down her master's home in Massachusetts?

3. Who was the leading suffragist of the Tuskegee Woman's Club (as denoted in the chapter "The Quest for Woman Suffrage")?

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

5. Who in February of 1893 was lynched in Paris, Texas under the accusation that he had raped a 5-year-old White girl?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the two sides regarding the Fifteenth Amendment.

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 800 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample