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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Defending Our Name.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was established for the purpose of invalid girls to go and help the poor?
(a) Hull House.
(b) Farcet House.
(c) Miller's House.
(d) Well-Stone Home.

2. What was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?
(a) Kate.
(b) Sylvia.
(c) Mary.
(d) Ida.

3. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Memphis.

4. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?
(a) Escaping them.
(b) Burning fields.
(c) Poisoning them.
(d) Seducing them.

5. Who wrote "Voice of the South"?
(a) Dawn South.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Maria Strena Markerson.
(d) Anna Julia Cooper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?

2. To whom did Mary Church Terrell look to for help in her address to President Harrison?

3. According to the chapter "Defending Our Name," who "stole the show" at the founding meeting of the uniting of the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the National Association of Colored Women?

4. 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"?

5. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?

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