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

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

3. What nation's exhibit did Frederick Douglass preside over at the exposition of 1893?

4. According to Virginia law, if a Christian was found to "commit fornication" with a Negro man or woman, how would his fines multiply?

5. Who became the first Black Alderman of Chicago?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the two sides regarding the Fifteenth Amendment.

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

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

5. What was the goal of the CWPA?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Black women impact the issues associated with race? What did they initiate? What progress were they responsible for?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss in detail the problems that Black women faced prior to the creation of laws that bettered treatment of slaves.

Essay Topic 3

Although the book's focus was mainly on the problems that Black women faced, issues that White women faced were also detailed. Compare and contrast the issues that both White and Black women faced.

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