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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) That "they find suitable White mistresses to ensure pure blood."
(b) That "the bastard children of their husbands were killed."
(c) That "slaves were always on the verge of hostility."
(d) That "their husbands do wrong with colored women."

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

3. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?
(a) Richard Hofstadter.
(b) Micheal Miller.
(c) Stephen Strenton.
(d) Orsen Walls.

4. What happened to the Gross National Product between 1869 and 1899?
(a) It was cut in half.
(b) It tripled.
(c) It doubled.
(d) It was cut by one fourth.

5. Who was by law ordered to be whipped for laying with a negro in 1630?
(a) Hugh Davis.
(b) Deacon Marks.
(c) Richard Martin.
(d) Frederick Salts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in February of 1893 was lynched in Paris, Texas under the accusation that he had raped a 5-year-old White girl?

2. According to the text, what were Black women "especially adept" at doing to their masters?

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

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

5. 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?

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