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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prelude to a Movement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the largest Black sorority in 1908?
(a) Alpha Beta Kappa.
(b) Kappa Delta Sigma.
(c) Alpha Kappa Alpha.
(d) Pi Beta Alpha.

2. Who led the NCLU at its founding meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1869?
(a) Robert Purvis.
(b) Isaac Meyers.
(c) Harriet Forten Remond.
(d) Charles Remond.

3. Where did Lucy C. Laney graduate from?
(a) Cornell University.
(b) William and Mary.
(c) Atlanta University.
(d) Princeton.

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

5. 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"?
(a) Jane P. Merritt.
(b) Ida B. Jones.
(c) Josephine Seams.
(d) Mary Franklin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?

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

3. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?

4. Who wrote an editorial in the newspaper "Free Speech" that spoke of the lynching of the grocer?

5. What was the name of the woman that taught former slaves in the 1860's in the South Carolina Sea Islands?

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