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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through To Choose Again, Freely.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Following the Civil War, why how did Black men "vindicate their manhood"?
(a) By petitioning the government.
(b) By declaring themselves head-of-household.
(c) By taking authority of women.
(d) By purchase of thier wives from the slave holder.

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

3. In what year did the Fifteenth Amendment pass?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1870.

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

5. Who was the author of the first Black novel written in America?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Richard M. Morester.
(d) William Wells Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lynchings occurred in 1892?

2. What was the name of the Black woman that threatened to boycott the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 if Black women were not given a "more substantial voice in the proceedings"?

3. Who were servant women sold to if they were found guilty of bearing a child of her master's in Virginia?

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

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

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