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

2. In 1915, how many state and local branches did the Black Chamber of Commerce have?
(a) 250.
(b) 170.
(c) 600.
(d) 16.

3. Who was lynched at the opening of the book?
(a) Stewart Wells.
(b) Shawn Morgan.
(c) Thomas Moss.
(d) Derrik Jones.

4. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?
(a) The church.
(b) Another slave holder outside of Virginia.
(c) The local prison authorities.
(d) The local governing male.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1895, who was the principal of the Tuskegee Institute?

2. When did the first African men and women come to Virginia?

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

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

5. What was the name of the woman that taught former slaves in the 1860's in the South Carolina Sea Islands?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What opinion did "The Woman's Era" (1894) offer regarding the traditional roles of women?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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