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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, in 1867, spoke against the Fifteenth Amendment before the AERA?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Ida B. Wells.

2. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?
(a) Alpha Beta Kappa.
(b) Pi Beta Alpha.
(c) Alpha Kappa Alpha.
(d) Kappa Delta Sigma.

3. According to the Chapter "Defending Our Name," what city in 1893 exported more cotton than any other city in America?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Memphis.

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

5. According to Virginia law, how many additional years of servitude did a servant woman have to serve if she bore the child of her master?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to W.E.B. Du Bois, could you not bribe?

2. According to an article in "The Independent," as referenced by the text in the chapter "Defending Our Name," what did White women prefer to happen to "keep their husbands straight"?

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

4. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?

5. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the goal of the CWPA?

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

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

7. Ultimately, why was Thomas Moss lynched?

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

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

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

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