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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, by order of the House of Burgesses, were masters of slaves able to do to their servants?
(a) Whip them.
(b) Hang them.
(c) Have intercourse with them.
(d) Starve them.

2. Who wrote the poem "Deliverance"?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Mary Church.
(c) Francis Ellen Harper.
(d) Milly Green.

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

4. What did Dr. Cesare Lombroso publish in 1876?
(a) "Wickedness of the Black."
(b) "Adaptations of the Post-Slave."
(c) "Criminal Man."
(d) "Science of the Negro."

5. How many signatures did the Victoria Earle Mathew's Loyal Union collect in support of the Blair Amendment?
(a) 8,800.
(b) 9,100.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 10,000+.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the death of both of Ida B. Wells' parents?

2. In 1913, what group organized a march in Washington, D.C. for the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration?

3. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?

4. Who became dean of Howard University, was a founding member of the NAACP, and opposed women's suffrage?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Although written to discuss the animal world, Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" was consequently paralleled to human society. How was this explained?

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

4. Describe the two sides regarding the Fifteenth Amendment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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