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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?

3. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)

4. What exposition in 1893 presented Black women with the opportunity to address the redefining of the criteria of true womanhood?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the two sides regarding the Fifteenth Amendment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part one of the book was dedicated to Black women "inventing themselves." Discuss in detail the steps that Black women needed to take to invent themselves.

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the Black women's clubs detailed in the book and describe:

1) its initial founding

2) the focus of the group

3) the progress the group made and

4) the opposition the group faced.

Essay Topic 3

How did interracial cooperation affect the equality movement? What problems were found to lie within interracial cooperation? What problems did interracial cooperation solve?

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