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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. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?

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

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

4. Who wrote "Voice of the South"?

5. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What headlines ran on Christmas Day in 1884 in the "Daily Appeal"?

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

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

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

8. What were Thomas Moss's final words before he was lynched in Tennessee?

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

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

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

Discuss in detail the power that Black women possessed throughout their fight for equal rights.

-Where did their power come from?

-How did they find their strength?

-What caused Black women to fight for their rights?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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